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SAT SATURDAY 18 APRIL 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05q5wkm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05r6sx0 (Listen) SAT The Shepherd's Life, Episode 5 SAT SAT Spring is the farmer's reward for the hard days of winter - SAT and in this final episode, the cycle of the year begins SAT again, as James Rebanks prepares for lambing. SAT SAT The first son of a shepherd, who was himself the first son SAT of a shepherd, James and his family have lived and worked in SAT and around the Lake District for generations. Through his SAT eyes we see that the Lake District is not a playground or a SAT scenic backdrop, it's a working landscape that needs sheep SAT and its farmers to survive. SAT SAT Read by Bryan Dick SAT Written by James Rebanks SAT Abridged by Sian Preece SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT Music details: SAT Track: "The Nightshift" SAT CD: Country Escape SAT Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM031. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Bryan Dick SAT Author: James Rebanks SAT Abridger: Sian Preece SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5wkp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5wks (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5wkz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05q5wl6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05qk7wq (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day the Rev'd Dr SAT Martyn Atkins. SAT SAT Script SAT Good morning. SAT The Diet of Worms reached a critical point this week in SAT 1521. This is not the latest fad in weight loss, but refers SAT to the questioning of a young Monk. A Diet was a formal SAT gathering to deliberate and pronounce upon matters relating SAT to the Holy Roman Empire; Worms was the place in Germany SAT where this took place, and the monk in question was called SAT Martin Luther. SAT Luther’s various publications, including the famous 95 SAT Theses, were placed on a table and he was asked to revoke SAT the heresies they were said to contain. He asked for time to SAT reflect and on April 18th reappeared before the court where SAT the same question was put to him: will you recant? SAT His response – sometimes rendered “Here I stand, I can do no SAT other” is one of the great speeches of history. “Unless I am SAT convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear SAT reason” he said, “I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted SAT and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot SAT and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor SAT right to go against conscience. May God help me.” SAT Yet Luther was, for all his courage and greatness, one who SAT suffered from mental illnesses, clinging to God and to faith SAT in depths and darknesses. Here is one of his prayers. SAT Behold, Lord, an empty vessel that needs to be filled. My SAT Lord, fill it. SAT I am weak in the faith; strengthen me. SAT I am cold in love; warm me and make me fervent, that my love SAT may go out to my neighbor. SAT I do not have a strong faith; at times I doubt. SAT O Lord, help me. Strengthen my faith and trust in you. SAT With me, there is an abundance of sin; in you is the SAT fullness of righteousness. SAT Therefore I will strive to remain with you. Amen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05qk7wt (Listen) SAT 'These are moving sands, and it's getting very interesting.' SAT Hear the results of Jon Manel's research into the unsolved SAT murder of Elsie Frost. We're able to detail for the first SAT time how Elsie's murder was reported in the national news, SAT and hear the words of the man who was accused and cleared. SAT Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracy. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05q5wm0 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05q5wm7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05qjs7w (Listen) SAT Sheffield Wild at Heart SAT SAT Helen Mark discovers why adults aged 50-105 are feeling Wild SAT at Heart in Sheffield. SAT With rising issues of loneliness and isolation, Project SAT Co-Ordinator Jan Flamank recognised a need to support older SAT adults in her community. As someone who is passionate about SAT the great outdoors - and knowledgeable about the health SAT benefits that nature can offer - Jan set about creating the SAT 'Wild at Heart Project'. The oldest Wild at Heart SAT participant so far has been 101, with the average in their SAT mid 80s. Many of the participants remember a time when SAT people spent more of their lives outdoors so for them SAT 'getting back to nature' is really about reconnecting with SAT their past and their youth. SAT SAT Presented by Helen Mark SAT Produced by Sophie Anton and Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05qv957 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Countryfile Farming Hero Finalist - SAT Joan Bomford SAT SAT Charlotte Smith meets Joan Bomford, one the BBC Food & SAT Farming Awards finalists in the Countryfile Farming Hero SAT category. Joan has been interested in farming since being a SAT little girl, and started working on the land during World SAT War Two when many of the men were away at war. With her SAT husband Tony, she started a riding school on their farm in SAT Worcestershire with just one animal - doing most of the SAT breeding herself and building it up to over a hundred SAT horses. This was farm diversification before people were SAT talking about it. She has overseen riding lessons for the SAT very young, as well as for people with physical and learning SAT disabilities. SAT SAT Now, as she hits 83, Joan is still going strong and shows no SAT sign of slowing down. However, as Charlotte Smith discovers, SAT it has not always been an easy journey and she has had to SAT face the loss of both her brother and husband in recent SAT years. Charlotte meets Joan - as well as one of her sons, SAT Colin, and some neighbours - as she looks back over a life SAT of hard work, love of farming, and making a real difference SAT to others. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith SAT Producer: Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05q5wmh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05qv959 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05qv95c (Listen) SAT Paul Merton SAT SAT The comedian, writer and presenter Paul Merton joins Aasmah SAT Mir and Richard Coles. SAT SAT A regular fixture on our radios and TVs - from Just a Minute SAT to Have I Got News For You? But it's pure improvisation that SAT he loves - starting with the Comedy Store Players back in SAT 1985, a gig that he still does every Sunday. And he's about SAT to start a UK tour improvising with a group of friends. SAT SAT Vanessa Mann on deltiology with a difference - why she buys SAT sets of postcards, with the aim to trace living relatives of SAT the people who wrote and received them. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets Pete Waterman to talk model railways. SAT SAT The sailor and broadcaster Paul Heiney on his voyage from SAT Falmouth to Cape Horn and back, to rediscover his son's SAT voice through the medium of sailing and the poem -'The SAT Silence at the Song's End'. SAT SAT The i-magician Jamie Allan on how he who fuses sleight of SAT hand with modern technology by bringing i-pads to his SAT performance. SAT SAT And Anita Dobson shares her "Inheritance Tracks". She SAT chooses: No One But You, by Billy Eckstine and Young at SAT Heart by Frank Sinatra. SAT SAT Paul Merton's Impro Chums on a UK Tour from 24 April to 17 SAT June 2015. SAT One Wild Song: A Voyage in a lost son's wake' by Paul SAT Heiney, published by Bloomsbury. SAT Jamie Allan is currently on a UK tour until 31st May. SAT On 28 April Anita Dobson will be appearing in a special SAT production of Follies, at the Royal Albert Hall, to mark SAT Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Merton SAT Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Mann SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Pete Waterman SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Heiney SAT Interviewed Guest: Jamie Allan SAT Interviewed Guest: Anita Dobson SAT SAT 10:30 1914-1918: The Cultural Front b05qvn32 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Glimpses of a Modern World SAT SAT Six months into the Great War and the world is beginning to SAT change and the aftershock is rippling through the cultural SAT establishment. SAT SAT New technologies like the telephone and the wireless SAT telegram are being used for the very first time. German SAT zeppelins loom over Britain. Poisonous gas is leaked onto SAT the battlefield at Ypres. SAT SAT On the cultural front we see these startling innovations SAT reflected back in the rise of modernist literature, such as SAT The 39 Steps by John Buchan, and art. C.R.W. Nevinson's 'La SAT Mitrailleuse' or 'The Machine Gun' marked a definitive break SAT from the Victorian interpretation of war as one of 'valour' SAT and 'sacrifice', glorified in Rupert Brooke's poems SAT published posthumously in 1915. SAT SAT Cinema is the most popular form of entertainment with the SAT demand to see international stars like Charlie Chaplin SAT changing the inner workings of the film industry. SAT SAT In the first of the second series on how the Great War SAT changed art, words and society, Francine Stock returns to SAT The Cultural Front looking for glimpses of a modern world. SAT SAT With contributions from Genevieve Bell, Pat Mills, Samuel SAT Hynes, Guillaume de Syon, Richard Slocombe, Stewart Kelly SAT and Bryony Dixon. SAT SAT Producer: Caitlin Smith. SAT SAT 11:00 Campaign Sidebar b05qvn34 (Listen) SAT A quirky, irreverent take on the twists and turns of the SAT election campaign, presented by Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05q5wmm (Listen) SAT Risking Everything SAT SAT The people behind the news headlines: the migrants risking SAT everything boarding flimsy boats to cross the Mediterranean; SAT the inhabitants of a Russian provincial town and what they SAT think of the country's leadership at a time of economic SAT hardship; the families living in Delhi, alarmed by reports SAT that the Indian capital has the worst air quality in the SAT world; the Venezuelans having to queue at the shops for SAT basic goods; and the Ethiopian volunteers who, by hard SAT graft, are bringing change to a region once known for misery SAT and famine. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05q5wmp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05qvn36 (Listen) SAT Labour's Plans for Tax and Benefits SAT SAT Money Box presenter Paul Lewis asks Labour's Ed Balls about SAT their plans for taxation, pensions and benefits in the week SAT that the party launched its 2015 General Election manifesto. SAT SAT And when are you too old to get a mortgage? The Financial SAT Ombudsman has ruled that HSBC was wrong to refuse a mortgage SAT to a middle-aged couple, stating the bank's risk assessment SAT was based on "information that included untested SAT assumptions, stereotypes or generalisations in respect of SAT age." Is this the end of mortgage-lenders maximum age SAT limits? SAT SAT Last week Money Box heard from a listener who was surprised SAT to find that her home contents insurance did not cover her SAT for theft by a cleaner. Money Box listeners have told us SAT that insurers seem confused about whether you are covered if SAT carers and home helps steal from you. An insurance expert SAT tells Money Box how you can find out. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b05qk6zm (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 2 SAT SAT The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect SAT the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes SAT for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's SAT Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the SAT flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the SAT country. SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis SAT MacLeod and Debra Stephenson. SAT SAT Producer: Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05q5wmy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05q5wnc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05qk6zv (Listen) SAT Sadiq Khan, Mark Reckless, Liz Truss, Humza Yousaf SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Eltham in SAT South London with Sadiq Khan for Labour, Mark Reckless for SAT UKIP, the Secretary of State for the Environment Food and SAT Rural Affairs, Liz Truss, and Humza Yousaf the Minister for SAT Europe and International Development in the Scottish SAT Government. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05qvn38 (Listen) SAT Anita Anand takes listeners' calls and emails in response to SAT this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT Get in touch: SAT Call: 03700 100 444 (Calls will cost no more than calls to SAT 01 and 02 geographic landlines. Lines open Sat 12:30 - SAT 14:30). SAT Text: 84844 SAT Tweet: Follow us @BBCAnyQuestions or tweet using #bbcaq SAT Email: anyanswers@bbc.co.uk SAT SAT Producer: Angie Nehring SAT Editor: Alex Lewis. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b05qf9cs (Listen) SAT The Raft of the Medusa SAT SAT Written by Simon Armitage. Set in the near future, after SAT months of continuous rain all coastal areas of the UK are SAT flooded. Bella and Jude are marooned on their farm in Kent SAT with dwindling supplies, made all too clear by the arrival SAT of a stranger who 'floats' in. SAT SAT This radio drama was inspired by Derek Jarman and provides SAT the soundtrack to a new film by Richard Heslop, which can be SAT seen on the Radio 4 website. SAT SAT Shortly before his death in 1994, Jarman was considering SAT making a film based on Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the SAT Medusa which depicts a group of desperate men, abandoned on SAT a raft at sea. He wrote about it in his notebook, but the SAT film was never made. SAT SAT Taking clues from Jarman, Simon Armitage's radio drama is SAT also inspired by flood and isolation. Richard Heslop worked SAT as Jarman's cinematographer and his accompanying film is SAT inspired by Jarman's passion for painting and colour as well SAT as Armitage's script. The music is by another of Derek SAT Jarman's collaborators, Simon Fisher Turner. SAT SAT Before the play, Jonathan Watts introduces listeners to SAT Derek Jarman's 'first' art form - painting - in which he SAT found a welcome escape. From an early age he delighted in SAT collage and the primacy of paint. SAT Contributors include Richard Heslop Timothy Hyman, Tacita SAT Dean, Simon Fisher Turner, Richard Salmon and William SAT Fowler. SAT SAT Sound design by Alisdair McGregor SAT Music by Simon Fisher Turner SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and Kate Bland SAT SAT A Cast Iron Radio and Film London Artists' Moving Image SAT Network production for BBC Radio 4 SAT Supported by Arts Council England. SAT SAT Simon Armitage SAT SAT Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor SAT of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of SAT numerous prizes and awards, he has published 10 collections SAT of poetry, including *Selected Poems* (2001*), Seeing Stars* SAT (2010), his acclaimed translation of *Sir Gawain and the SAT Green Knight *(2007) and more recently *The Death of King SAT Arthur* (2012). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes SAT extensively for television and radio, is the author of two SAT novels and the best-selling memoir *All Points North*. In SAT 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry. SAT SAT Richard Heslop SAT SAT Richard Heslop graduated in 1984 from St. Martin’s School of SAT Art film department with a BA honours in film/fine art. He SAT became a cameraman on Derek Jarman's arthouse feature film SAT *The Garden* (1990) and *The Last of England*. In 1991, he SAT directed *Floating* for Channel 4, a 39-minute movie about a SAT Docklands bus driver on the verge of a nervous breakdown, SAT who has visions of a second ‘Great Flood’, and finally SAT destroys his house in order to build an ark in his living SAT room. This film was awarded Best Short Film in the Semaine SAT de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992. That SAT same year, Richard Heslop joined Oil Factory - a prolific SAT London-based production company for music videos and SAT commercials. Richard has since been writing and developing SAT feature film scripts as well as progressing his work in SAT photography, illustration, video installation and his SAT collection of unique conceptual art pieces. SAT SAT In 2010 Richard set up I Like Films, Me Ltd with producers SAT Ciska Faulkner and Philip Shotton to produce the feature SAT film *Frank.* The film was nominated for a BIFA in 2012. SAT He joined long time collaborator and producer Ciska Faulkner SAT at BloodSugar Films in 2014, where he continues to write, SAT develop and direct both short and long format work. SAT SAT Film stills © Richard Heslop SAT SAT Simon Fisher Turner SAT Simon Fisher Turner became Artist In Residence at the ICA in SAT 1980. While working as a driver for a management company in SAT the early 1980s, Fisher Turner met film director Derek SAT Jarman. Although he admits that, initially, he "had to ask SAT people what to do", he composed soundtracks for SAT *Caravaggio*, *The Last Of England*, *The Garden* and SAT *Edward II*, and finally *Blue*, Jarman's last feature film SAT before his death. He has also pursued a parallel pop path, SAT recording as the King of Luxembourg for Creation, Él and SAT Cherry Red Records in the 1980s, and latterly under the SAT alias Loveletter. SAT SAT Credits SAT Bella: Amaka Okafor SAT Jude: Catherine Cusack SAT Gregor: Gabriel Constantin SAT Writer: Simon Armitage SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Producer: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Producer: Kate Bland SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b05mbc0p (Listen) SAT Series 20, Hallelujah SAT SAT Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' took him years to write. It SAT originally had as many as 80 verses. Recorded for his SAT 'Various Positions' album, it was almost ignored when first SAT released in 1984. Only Bob Dylan saw its true worth and SAT would play it live. John Cale eventually recorded a version SAT which was heard by an obscure musician called Jeff Buckley. SAT SAT The song has been covered by hundreds of artists including SAT Rufus Wainwright, K.D.Lang and Alexandra Burke. SAT SAT We hear from those whose relationship with the song is deep SAT and profound: singer Brandi Carlisle listened to it over and SAT over again as a troubled teenager; it became a sound-track SAT to James Talerico falling in love and Jim Kullander made a SAT connection with the song after the death of his wife. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05qvn3b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Carey Mulligan, Paul and Coral Jones, SAT Noomi Rapace SAT SAT Carey Mulligan talks about playing Bathsheba in the new film SAT version of Far From the Madding Crowd. SAT In October 2012, five year old April Jones was abducted in SAT the Welsh village of Machynlleth. Her parents Coral and Paul SAT Jones discuss the book they've written about their daughter SAT and their continuing campaign against online child SAT pornography. SAT Does a woman's sense of identity shift at the age of 50 and SAT if so how? Three women tell us about how their lives SAT changed. SAT More students are choosing to fund their education by SAT working in the sex industry. We hear from an escort about SAT her decision. SAT Is it ever right to pass judgement on brides and their SAT choice of wedding dress? SAT The actress Noomi Rapace made a name for herself when she SAT starred in the original version of The Girl with the Dragon SAT Tattoo. She discusses her new film Child 44 and why she's SAT drawn to roles in such dark films. SAT And the award winning spoken word artist Hollie McNish SAT performs her poem Bricks. SAT SAT Carey Mulligan SAT SAT Carey Mulligan made her name in her first film, An Education SAT – which won her an Oscar nomination – and has been acclaimed SAT since for her work in major films like Shame, Drive, and The SAT Great Gatsby. Now she’s about to appear on the big screen in SAT the lead role of Bathesheba Everdene in the new film version SAT of Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd, first made SAT famous by Julie Christie in 1967. She joins Jenni to talk SAT about taking on this famous role of a strong female in a SAT man’s world, and about her own experiences making it as a SAT young woman in the Hollywood film industry today. SAT SAT Far From The Madding Crowd is released on 1 May, certificate SAT 12A. SAT SAT Coral and Paul Jones SAT SAT In October of 2012, five-year-old April Jones was abducted SAT in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. Her shocking SAT disappearance sparked the biggest police search in UK SAT history and hundreds of people turned out to search for her. SAT Only traces of April’s body were ever found, but paedophile SAT Mark Bridger was convicted of her abduction and murder. SAT SAT Now April’s parents, Coral and Paul, have written about SAT their daughter and about the terrible events which followed SAT her abduction. They’ve been talking to Jane about the little SAT girl they lost, how they’ve coped with the tragedy and their SAT continuing campaign against online child pornography. SAT SAT ‘April’ by Paul and Coral Jones was published by Simon & SAT Schuster on April 9th. SAT ChildLine SAT is the UK’s free, 24-hour confidential helpline for children SAT and young people who need to talk. Trained counsellors are SAT there to provide comfort, support and advice about any SAT problem that’s on your mind. Contact them 24 hours a day, SAT every day, by phone or via their website. SAT The National Association for People Abused in Childhood SAT is a charity that offers support, advice and guidance to SAT adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse. SAT Samaritans SAT is available for anyone struggling to cope round the clock, SAT every single day of the year. They provide a safe place to SAT talk where calls are completely confidential. Get in touch SAT by phone or email or find the details for the local branch SAT online SAT The NSPCC SAT is a charity specialising in child protection and the SAT prevention of cruelty to children. The charity has a free SAT anonymous 24/7 helpline that provides help, advice and SAT support to adults worried about a child. SAT Pace (Parents against child sexual exploitation) SAT works alongside parents and carers of children who are – or SAT are at risk of being – sexually exploited by perpetrators SAT external to the family, as well as offering guidance and SAT training to professionals on how child sexual exploitation SAT affects the whole family. Pace seeks to enable parents and SAT carers to safeguard and stop their children being sexually SAT exploited, works with parents and partners to disrupt and SAT bring perpetrators to justice, and aims to influence SAT national and local policy and practice. SAT The National Rape Crisis Helpline SAT is accessible 365 days a year to women calling from anywhere SAT in England and Wales who have survived any form of sexual SAT violence, no matter how long ago, offering specialised, SAT confidential support, information and referral details SAT completely free of charge. The helpline is also available to SAT provide an immediate source of support to friends and family SAT of survivors, as well as other professionals, to understand SAT how best to support female survivors of sexual violence. SAT The Survivors Trust SAT has over 130 member agencies based in the UK and Ireland SAT which provide specialist support for women, men and children SAT who are survivors of rape, sexual violence or childhood SAT sexual abuse. SAT Survivors UK SAT provides information, support and counselling for men who SAT have been raped or sexually abused. SAT Rape Crisis Scotland SAT provides a national rape crisis helpline for anyone affected SAT by sexual violence, no matter when or how it happened. The SAT helpline offers free and confidential crisis support and SAT information. They can also put you in touch with local rape SAT crisis centres or other services for ongoing support. SAT NEXUS NI SAT works across Northern Ireland to respond to the needs of SAT survivors of sexual violence. They offer counselling to SAT victims of rape, sexual violence and sexual abuse. Contact SAT your local Nexus office by phone or email to arrange SAT counselling or to ask for more information. SAT Victim Support SAT If you’ve been a victim or witness of any crime you can get SAT emotional and practical help from Victim Support, whether or SAT not it has been reported to the police. SAT Victim Support Scotland SAT offers emotional and practical support to all victims and SAT witnesses of crime across Scotland. SAT Victim Support NI SAT offers emotional and practical support to all victims and SAT witnesses of crime across Northern Ireland. SAT SAT Personal Identity After 50 SAT At the age of 50, you may or may not have had children. You SAT may have fulfilled all your career, financial, and SAT relationship goals, or you may not. So how do you feel at SAT this stage in your life? What do you aim for next? Is it a SAT time to move away from everything familiar and do something SAT completely different? Does a 50 year old today feel the same SAT as a 50 year old did 30 years ago? Does a woman’s sense of SAT identity shift at this age, and if so, how? Jane is joined SAT by Juliet Rix, columnist at The Guardian, by the actor SAT Claire Dyson, and by university course director Susan SAT Rowland. SAT SAT Who Chooses Sex Work? SAT A recent study examined the working practices and SAT experiences of internet-based sex workers in the UK. We hear SAT from Millie, an escort paying for her education. And Dr SAT Teela Saunders, lead researcher, and Kirstin Innes, author SAT of a new novel called Fishnet, join Jane to discuss who SAT chooses to work in the sex industry and why. SAT SAT Wedding Dress Criticism SAT Whether it’s worst wedding dress lists or articles warning SAT brides to beware the ugly dresses worn by celebrities, it SAT seem that criticising nuptial attire is becoming an SAT international sport- with the latest target being Kim Sears, SAT who recently married Andy Murray. So SAT why are wedding dresses such a contested minefield? Author SAT and Editor-in-chief Of Harper's BAZAAR SAT Justine Picardie SAT and Acting Content Director of ELLE SAT Kenya Hunt SAT discuss if it’s ever ok to pass judgement on brides. SAT SAT Noomi Rapace SAT SAT Noomi Rapace stars in a new film, *Child 44*, based on the SAT best-selling novel by Tom Rob Smith. The backdrop is 1950’s SAT Soviet Russia, and the story is loosely based on the crimes SAT of real-life serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Noomi plays SAT Raisa Demidov, the wife of a secret police agent. In the SAT film the couple investigate a trail of murdered children, SAT hampered by Stalin’s rule that, “There is no crime in SAT Paradise.” Noomi Rapace made a name for herself when she SAT starred in the original version of *The Girl with the Dragon SAT Tattoo*. She joins Jenni to talk about *Child 44,* and why SAT she’s drawn to roles in such dark films. SAT SAT *Child 44 *goes on general release on April 17th*.* SAT SAT Hollie McNish SAT SAT Award winning spoken word artist SAT Hollie McNish SAT speaks to Jane about her new double album, tour and SAT forthcoming collection. Hollie talks about relinquishing SAT control when it came to putting her poetry to music; dealing SAT with critics and how personal she is prepared to get when it SAT comes to her work. SAT SAT Hollie’s UK Tour starts on Wednesday 15th April in Edinburgh SAT and continues in cities including Nottingham, Brighton – SAT ending in Belfast on the 18th May. SAT SAT Versus - The Album – is out on the 27th April and the poetry SAT collection Cherry Pie is out on the 1st June. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Carey Mulligan SAT Interviewed Guest: Coral Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Juliet Rix SAT Interviewed Guest: Claire Dyson SAT Interviewed Guest: Susan Rowland SAT Interviewed Guest: Teela Sanders SAT Interviewed Guest: Justine Picardie SAT Interviewed Guest: Kenya Hunt SAT Interviewed Guest: Noomi Rapace SAT Interviewed Guest: Hollie McNish SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05qvn3d (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b05qk7wt (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05q5wnz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05q5wp5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5wpb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05qvn6j (Listen) SAT Christopher Eccleston, Mary Wilson, Cathal Smyth, Louise SAT Osmond, Marker Starling SAT SAT Emma Freud and Danny Wallace with guests Christopher SAT Eccleston, Mary Wilson, Cathal Smyth and Louise Osmond, with SAT music from Mary Wilson and Marker Starling SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Christopher Eccleston SAT Safe House starts on ITV on Monday 20th April at 9pm SAT SAT Mary Wilson SAT SAT For the Legends Live October tour dates – London, SAT Birmingham, Manchester, see SAT www.legendslive.org SAT Mary Wilson's official website SAT SAT Cathal Smyth SAT SAT A Comfortable Man is out on Monday May 11th on The Phoenix SAT Rising Recording Company SAT Cathal Smyth's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Marker Starling SAT SAT Marker Starling performs Husbands from his album Rosy Maze SAT out now on Tin Angel Records SAT Marker Starling's official website SAT SAT SAT Louise Osmond SAT SAT ‘Dark Horse – The Incredible Story of Dream Alliance’ – is SAT in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 17 April. SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Freud SAT Presenter: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Christopher Eccleston SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Wilson SAT Interviewed Guest: Cathal Smyth SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Osmond SAT Performer: Mary Wilson SAT Performer: Marker Starling SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05qvqpp (Listen) SAT Ronnie O'Sullivan SAT SAT With five World Championship titles already under his belt, SAT Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan will compete in Sheffield SAT this weekend hoping to secure a sixth. He is seen by many as SAT the greatest snooker player in history. O'Sullivan arrived SAT on the professional snooker scene when he was just a SAT teenager, and immediately caused a storm. His talent was SAT never in doubt. When on form, he is unbeatable. But his SAT public battles with alcoholism, drugs and depression have SAT plagued him throughout his career. Which Ronnie will be on SAT display at the Crucible over the next few weeks? SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producers: Hannah Barnes and Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05qvqpr (Listen) SAT Carmen Disruption, Home From Home, Caryl Phillips, Sonia SAT Delaunay SAT SAT Carmen Disruption is Simon Stephens' radical reworking of SAT Bizet's opera, exploring the place where the actor becomes SAT the character they're playing SAT Home From Home, a 4 hour long cinematic prequel to the 53 SAT hour long TV series Heimat, tells the tale of a fictional SAT rural German village from the 1840s to the 1990s. SAT Caryl Phillips' latest novel The Lost Child reimagines SAT Wuthering Heights through several interweaving narratives. SAT An exhibition of the work of Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern SAT is designed as a radical reassessment of her importance as SAT an artist, showcasing her originality and creativity across SAT the twentieth Century. SAT SAT BOOK: THE LOST CHILD SAT by Caryl Phillips(published by Oneworld Publications) SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05rk6m8 (Listen) SAT Who's Your Father, Referee? SAT SAT Clive Anderson explores the reasons behind the apparent SAT decline in the level of respect shown to the football SAT referee and asks - amid all the abuse, death threats and SAT endless scrutiny and criticism - who on earth would want to SAT be a referee. SAT SAT He searches through the archives for evidence of a golden SAT age in which the referee's decision was final, and traces SAT the various changes in the game which appear to have fuelled SAT the problems for referees. When and why did things turn so SAT ugly? SAT SAT Top referees, commentators, sports journalists and former SAT players discuss how television coverage, slow motion cameras SAT and endless analysis by pundits have contributed to the SAT growing pressures on the man in the middle. They argue about SAT who is blame for undermining the authority of referees - SAT over-paid players, aggressive managers or the media. Do the SAT referees contribute to their own problem, by making too many SAT mistakes or being overly officious? SAT SAT Former professional referee Dermot Gallagher says that, SAT despite high-profile incidents and worrying accounts of SAT violence against referees in parks football, there has never SAT been a better time to be a referee. SAT SAT Rugby, cricket and other sports are not without their SAT problems in this area, but why does the situation appear to SAT be so acute in football? Sports sociologist, Dr Richard SAT Elliot considers whether behaviour towards sports officials SAT reflect changes in attitudes towards authority in wider SAT society. SAT SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05pkpgg (Listen) SAT The Left Hand of Darkness, Episode 1 SAT SAT Adapted by Judith Adams SAT SAT Science fiction with incredible humanity from a brilliant SAT feminist writer. This is the first dramatisation of Ursula SAT Le Guin's 1969 novel which is as groundbreaking in its SAT approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 SAT years ago. SAT SAT In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an SAT alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission SAT of his life. Alone and unarmed, Genly Ai has been sent from SAT Earth to persuade the world of Gethen to join The Ekumen, a SAT union of planets. But it's a task fraught with danger. Genly SAT is shocking to the natives. This is a world in which humans SAT are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother, and everyone SAT can be a father. SAT SAT First Minister Estraven is the only person who champions SAT Genly's cause, but their relationship is deeply SAT incomprehensible and troubling. Genly's life is at risk and SAT he must decide who to trust. SAT SAT Director: Allegra McIlroy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Genly Ai: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SAT Estraven: Lesley Sharp SAT Argaven: Toby Jones SAT Tibe: Louise Brealey SAT Faxe: Noma Dumezweni SAT Ashe: Ruth Gemmell SAT Ong Tot: Adjoa Andoh SAT Shusgis: Stephen Critchlow SAT Obsle: David Acton SAT Driver: David Hounslow SAT Guard: Rhiannon Neads SAT Author: Ursula Le Guin SAT Adaptor: Judith Adams SAT Director: Allegra McIlroy SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05q5wpf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Two Rooms b05qgm2n (Listen) SAT Fi Glover hosts a unique experiment as two groups of people SAT share their contrasting experiences, and voice their inner SAT concerns about the way society is developing, as Britain SAT faces arguably the most unpredictable election of modern SAT times. SAT SAT In the first programme, the groups explore whether they feel SAT that the UK is creating a secure and financially stable SAT society for all. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Jarvis SAT Series Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b05qfm6t (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 4, 2015 SAT SAT (16/17) SAT Who declared himself King of France in 1795 but didn't come SAT to the throne for another nineteen years? And which SAT Hollywood actress's autobiography was entitled 'Goodness Had SAT Nothing To Do With It'? SAT SAT Russell Davies asks the questions in the nail-biting fourth SAT semi-final of the 2015 tournament, with four more keen SAT quizzers vying for the single remaining place in the Final SAT next week. The winner stands a real chance of being named SAT the 62nd BBC Brain of Britain champion. SAT SAT The contenders come from London, Bath, Bromley and Lytham in SAT Lancashire. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT ANDREW FRAZER, a company director from Chiswick in London; SAT SAT NIGEL JONES, a retired computer programmer from Bath; SAT SAT MARTIN RILEY, a business analyst from Lytham in Lancashire; SAT SAT PETER WHITEHEAD, a retired civil servant from Bromley in SAT Kent. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 The (Half) Life of Strontium b05q6323 (Listen) SAT A poetic meditation on the element which unites the atomic SAT bomb which dropped on Nagaski, a remote village in Argyll, SAT and a mutant bounty hunter. Strontium is the 38th element in SAT the Periodic Table, discovered in 1792 in a mine in the SAT Scottish village of Strontian, named by the father of SAT Chemistry Sir Humphry Davy in 1808 and used first as the SAT agent by which sugar was produced from sugar beet, then as a SAT compound in pottery glazes and neon tubes, and finally as an SAT ingredient in the nuclear bomb which inspired the name SAT "Strontium Dog", the mutant bounty hunter in the comic SAT 2000AD. SAT SAT This experimental poetry programme visits Strontian and SAT tells the story of the element and the town, while the poet SAT Robert Crawford writes new poems connecting the element, the SAT bomb and the "mutie" hunter who scours an apocalyptic post SAT nuclear landscape hunting criminals hideously disfigured by SAT the element from which he takes his name. SAT SAT The Actor is David Jackson Young. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05qvyy2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Ballads of Thin Men b011325p (Listen) SUN People Carry Roses SUN SUN Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential SUN cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - SUN was 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin SUN Men were commissioned specially to mark the occasion. SUN SUN Written by Toby Litt SUN SUN It's 1985. A fifteen-year-old boy finds his entire LP SUN collection vandalised after his sister's eighteenth birthday SUN party. All except one - his only Bob Dylan record - which SUN he'd lent out. But who has it? He goes all over the village SUN to track it down, but his reasons for doing so aren't what SUN they might seem... SUN SUN Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in Bedfordshire. In SUN 2003, he was named one of Grant's Best of Young British SUN Novelists. His most recent novel, King Death,was published SUN in 2010. His story, The Melancholy, formed part of the Sweet SUN Talk series Why, Robot? for the Afternoon Reading in 2010. SUN SUN Reader: Matt Green SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvyy4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvyy6 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvyy8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05qvyyb (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05qy96n (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide, Australia. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b05qvqpp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05qvyyd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05qy96q (Listen) SUN Deserts SUN SUN Samira Ahmed explores how the idea of the desert has been SUN used in literature and spiritual texts. SUN SUN Often, in Western literature, the desert is a place of SUN self-discovery for a single, romantic explorer or is used as SUN a place to test ideas and fears about the end of the world. SUN But Samira's first encounter with a desert story was that of SUN Hagar and Ishmael. Ishmael, the first son of the Biblical SUN Patriarch, Abraham, is cast out into the desert with his SUN mother, Hagar. Thirsty and abandoned they are saved by an SUN intervention from God and a promise that Ishmael will go on SUN to found a great nation. SUN SUN Harsh and difficult places to live, yes, but the desert SUN regions of the world are not the unpopulated wastelands of SUN the Western literary imagination. In this programme we hear SUN music and poetry from people who live in deserts and find SUN great beauty there. SUN SUN There's music from Steve Reich, Tinariwen and Brian Eno, SUN along with poems and prose written by Laurie Lee, Elana Bell SUN and the pre-Islamic Arabic poet, Shanfara. SUN SUN The readers are Joe Armstrong, Sirine Saba and Emily Taaffe. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Scot in the Desert SUN Author: Laurie Lee SUN Publisher: John Murray Pub SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The story of Hagar and Ishmael - scripture quotations SUN taken from the New English Bible SUN Publisher: Cambridge University Press and Oxford University SUN Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The story of Hagar and Ishmael - scripture quotations SUN taken from the New English SUN Publisher: Cambridge University Press and Oxford University SUN Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: What Else God Wanted SUN Author: Elana Bell SUN Publisher: Louisiana State University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Children of the Sun and Wind SUN Author: Mohamed Ebnu (literal translation Tom Boll, final SUN translation by the Poetry Translation Workshop) SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Arabian Ode “L”(extract) SUN Author: Shanfara, translated Michael A Sells, from Desert SUN Tracings SUN Publisher: Wesleyan University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Ozymandias SUN Synopsis: The ultimate poem of desert hubris SUN Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN Publisher: Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The End of Civilisation as we know it SUN Author: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Publisher: Cape Poetry SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Atrocity Exhibition SUN Author: JG Ballard SUN Publisher: The Fourth Estate SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b05qy96s (Listen) SUN Skinner's Farm SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In the early 1980's Norfolk farmer Chris Skinner had a SUN natural history epiphany. He had inherited and ran a SUN profitable mixed farm and shoot. Then following a successful SUN shooting day a chance comment began a life changing moment. SUN From that day the farm was managed with wildlife in mind. SUN Visiting in 1995, Lionel Kelleway joins Chris in his SUN farmhouse kitchen to discuss a wildlife watching day across SUN his one square mile of Norfolk. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05qvyyg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05qvyyj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05qydx2 (Listen) SUN Generation 2015, Exorcisms, Irish Same-Sex Marriage SUN SUN In May voters in Ireland will be asked if the Constitution SUN should be changed to extend civil marriage rights to SUN same-sex couples. Dr John Murray from Mothers and Fathers SUN Matter and Dr Richard O'Leary from Changing Attitudes SUN Ireland discuss. SUN SUN The "March of the Living" is a 3Km yearly walk from SUN Auschwitz to Birkenau Bob Walker joined 250 young Jewish SUN people from the UK. SUN SUN France has said it will not back down over its nomination of SUN an openly gay ambassador to the Vatican. We speak to Sir SUN Ivor Roberts, former UK Ambassador to Italy on the SUN diplomatic protocols of appointing ambassadors. SUN SUN An exorcism conference is taking place in Rome this week SUN amid claims the "Francis effect" has prompted a rise in the SUN number of Catholics who believe themselves possessed by the SUN Devil. Peter Stanford and Fr Gerald O'Collins discuss the SUN Pope, the Devil and exorcisms. SUN SUN Over the next two weeks, as part of the BBC Generation 2015 SUN initiative, Sunday will hear from 8 young people who tell us SUN how their faith is influencing their voting decisions. This SUN week, we speak to an undecided Hindu , an Agnostic Plaid SUN Cymru , a Muslim Conservative and a Christian Liberal SUN Democrat. SUN SUN Conservative evangelical Anglican Church leaders from around SUN the world met in London this week expressing concern for SUN what they say is the "drift" away from the biblical faith by SUN many in the Church of England. We speak to the Archbishop SUN Peter Jensen, Secretary General of the Global Anglican SUN Futures Conference, or GAFCON. Religious journalist Ruth SUN Gledhill looks at the implications of the outcome of the SUN conference. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN Zaffar Iqbal SUN SUN Editor: SUN Christine Morgan SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Dr John Murray SUN Dr Richard O'Leary SUN Sir Ivor Roberts SUN Fr Gerald O'Collins SUN Peter Stanford SUN Archbishop Peter Jensen SUN Ruth Gledhill. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05qydx4 (Listen) SUN Partners for Change Ethiopia SUN SUN Michael Buerk presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Partners For SUN Change Ethiopia SUN Registered Charity No 297391 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Partners For Change Ethiopia'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Partners for Change SUN Ethiopia. SUN SUN Partners for Change Ethiopia SUN SUN Partners for Change Ethiopia began during the Ethiopian SUN Famine of 1984/5, when it set up orphanages looking after SUN over a 1,000 children orphaned by the famine and civil war. SUN Thirty years later Partners for Change has helped hundreds SUN of thousands of orphan children through enabling the poorest SUN communities to find ways of supporting them. SUN Now in 2015, Partners for Change is working with the Gende SUN Tesfa community where every family has been affected by SUN leprosy - 200 orphans need help and a further 600 live in SUN desperate poverty. SUN SUN Live SUN SUN Estubdink and brother Mikael featured in Michael Buerk’s SUN Radio 4 Appeal live with their aunt. Despite struggling to SUN feed them, their aunt Adelesh says, SUN ‘*I will look after these children until I die*.’ SUN Partners for Change want to help her and other carers to SUN look after orphan children and give them a future. SUN SUN Learn SUN SUN Partners for Change provides school uniforms, helps orphans SUN catch up on education they might have missed, and provides SUN assistance to poorly resourced schools. It also trains these SUN schools how to set up small businesses to fund further SUN improvement. SUN SUN Grow SUN SUN In the poorest communities like Gende Tesfa there is little SUN water and no toilets. Partners for Change constructs SUN community run toilets, showers and water points to ensure SUN children grow up in a safe and healthy environment. Partners SUN for Change also teaches orphan carers how to grow food and SUN set up small businesses so that their children have SUN sufficient, nutritious food and are enabled to grow to SUN realise their full potential. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05qvyyl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05qvyyn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05qydx6 (Listen) SUN The Tree of Life SUN SUN On the second Sunday of Easter, the Rev'd Canon Dr. Patrick SUN Thomas reflects on the search for 'paradise lost' through SUN symbols of the Resurrection. The service, led by the Rev. SUN Delyth Richards, comes from Christ Church, Carmarthen with SUN the Swansea Bach Choir, directed by Greg Hallam. Organist SUN Glenn Crooks. SUN Producer Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05qk6zx (Listen) SUN Ideology Versus Art SUN SUN Howard Jacobson explains why he prefers art to ideology, SUN especially at election time, and always has. "I consider SUN myself fortunate enough to have been brought up in a state SUN of dogma-free grace." "...the point of art is to refute SUN whatever it is we've made up our minds about." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Howard Jacobson SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45q5 (Listen) SUN Ruff SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Bill Oddie presents the ruff. The glory of the ruff lies in SUN its extravagant courtship displays. For most of the year SUN these waders look similar to our other long-legged SUN water-birds such as redshanks or sandpipers but in the SUN breeding season the males sprout a multi-coloured ruff. The SUN impressive ruffs of feathers come in infinite variety, SUN black, white, ginger, or a mixture of these. The males SUN gather at traditional spring leks with the aim of winning SUN one or more mates. SUN SUN Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN Recording of ruff by Patrik Åberg (Xeno-canto.org) SUN SUN This programme contains a recording of a ruff, which was SUN recorded by Patrik Åberg and sourced via the website SUN Xento-canto.org. SUN SUN SUN SUN Reference XC58549 / Original recording accessible at SUN www.xeno-canto.org/58549. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05qygcb (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b05qygcd (Listen) SUN Lilian makes some changes, and Shula makes a call. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:16 The Reunion b05qygcg (Listen) SUN The Hit Factory SUN SUN "I had a vision of Motown-type songs with more modern chords SUN and techno, gay, disco rhythms." SUN SUN When pop impresario Pete Waterman suggested collaborating SUN with song-writers and musicians Matt Aitken and Mike Stock SUN in 1985, they had little idea of what an impact they were SUN going to have on the music industry. SUN SUN Their musical template included a take on 'HI-NRG', a sound SUN that had been particularly popular in gay clubs of the North SUN of England. Waterman was a frequent DJ at the clubs and was SUN well acquainted with the dance-floor lights that were SUN triggered by the sounds of the particular record being SUN played. SUN SUN "When one of our records came on, it was louder than the SUN previous one and the lights would go off like fireworks" SUN says Waterman. SUN SUN 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' by Dead or Alive, SUN reached number one in December 1984 and the writing, SUN production and management trio had hits with Bananarama, SUN Donna Summer, and Divine - but their real achievement was in SUN breaking the careers of new artists like Rick Astley, Sonia, SUN Sinitta, and Mel and Kim. The triumph was in spotting that SUN two stars of a cult Australian TV soap could become pop SUN giants. Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue, both together and SUN separately, would go on to top charts around the globe. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor is joined by Sinitta and Jason Donovan, SUN together with Pete Waterman and recording engineer Phil SUN Harding, to re-live the days when their unique sound ruled SUN the airwaves. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05qvyyq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Dilemma b05qg5jh (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 2 SUN SUN Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts SUN the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel. This SUN week, it's the turn of comedians Lucy Porter and Andy SUN Zaltzman, BBC 6Music DJ Shaun Keaveny, and food writer Jack SUN Monroe, who debate letting your children play with the SUN offspring of racists, going on the minimum wage in exchange SUN for other people's living standards being raised, and how to SUN react to discovering infidelity just before you get married. SUN Episode two of six. SUN SUN Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by SUN Danielle Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sue Perkins SUN Panellist: Lucy Porter SUN Panellist: Shaun Keaveny SUN Panellist: Jack Monroe SUN Panellist: Andy Zaltzman SUN Producer: Ed Morrish SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05qygcj (Listen) SUN School Dinners - A Progress Report SUN SUN Ten years on from 'Jamie's School Dinners', Sheila Dillon is SUN joined by children's food campaigner and former dinner lady SUN Jeanette Orrey and Co-Author of the School Food Plan, Henry SUN Dimbleby to look at the state of school food and discuss how SUN new international relationships could make British school SUN food better. SUN SUN It's also 10 years since Sheila visited Sweden to see a free SUN school meals system known for nutritious food, where SUN students and teachers dine together. This spring, Tony SUN Mulgrew, Catering manager at Ravenscliffe High School in SUN Halifax and 2014 winner of Best Cook at the BBC Food and SUN Farming Awards, set up an exchange with Lyndon McLeod, SUN school chef in Gislavedin Sweden. Their aim? To bring SUN together school chefs around the world and share ideas on SUN improving school food online. SUN SUN Our panel also hear from the Copenhagen 'House of Food', an SUN innovative centre that's creating a school food culture in SUN the city where there used to be none. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeanette Orrey SUN Interviewed Guest: Henry Dimbleby SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05qvyys (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05qygcl (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05qk6yw (Listen) SUN Stratford-upon-Avon SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the panel in Warwickshire, with an SUN audience of local gardeners. Chris Beardshaw, Pippa SUN Greenwood and Christine Walkden answer the questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This Week's Questions SUN Q. Could the panel make some suggestions for planting in a SUN school playground? The primary school children are often SUN tempted to pull off the leaves and shoots. SUN SUN A. Christine – Try some sticky plants that will ward the SUN children off touching them. You could try the opposite SUN approach and use something very tactile such as the soft SUN leaved Pulsatilla vulgaris or the Lamb’s ears. SUN SUN Pippa – It might be worth explaining why the plants need SUN leaves and the children could be in charge of the replanting SUN so that they have a sense of ownership. SUN Q. How can I grow Nerine bulbs successfully? SUN SUN A. Chris – There are two principle varieties: Nerine SUN bowdenii with pink trumpets on a stout stem and Nerine SUN sarniensis with its much finer structure and with flowers SUN like firecrackers. Bowdennii works well in a gravel bed. The SUN ideal situation is a warm, south-facing wall with light SUN friable soils. Plant the bulbs so that the neck is just SUN below ground level. Try and keep the bed free from other SUN plants other than light canopy annuals. Try some potash feed SUN but don’t use a nitrogen fertiliser. SUN Q. Could you recommend some plants for a spring garden? SUN SUN A. Christine – Try some specialist bulbs such as Iris SUN reticulata, Iris histeroides or Iris danfordiae. Planting SUN them deep and adding bone meal will encourage repeat SUN flowering. Also try Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclamen coum. SUN Chionodoxas and the Scillas. SUN SUN Chris – Gladiolus italicus is a fine leaved plant with SUN magenta colour flowers. It is worth growing as a pot SUN specimen or in an herbaceous meadow. Cistus oblongifolius SUN has a long leaf with a clear white flower. SUN SUN Pippa – Narcissus February Gold will flower from the back SUN end of September right through until early spring. SUN Hellebores are also a great option. SUN Q. I have a problem growing beetroot on clay soil that is SUN improved with grit, sand and compost. Can you help? SUN SUN A. Christine - There is possibly too much nitrogen in the SUN soil. Try growing it in more impoverished conditions. SUN SUN Pippa – It might benefit from a high phosphate feed. SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05qynrj (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears about mental health in the City, coping with SUN loss in Herefordshire, and a wish-list for the ideal carer SUN from Leeds, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b05qynrl (Listen) SUN The Left Hand of Darkness, Episode 2 SUN SUN Adapted by Judith Adams SUN SUN In the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world two friends SUN flee across endless snow plains on a journey that will take SUN them to the edge of their physical and emotional endurance. SUN The stakes are high - to save a world from war, and save SUN their own lives. SUN SUN This is the first radio dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin's SUN novel which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender SUN as when it was first published over 45 years ago. Genly Ai SUN has arrived from Earth onto the planet Gethen, a world in SUN which humans are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother and SUN everyone can be a father. In coming to terms with their SUN otherness - and also their sameness - Genly must let go of SUN everything he understood about his own identity. SUN SUN Director: Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Estraven: Lesley Sharp SUN Genly Ai: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SUN Ashe: Ruth Gemmell SUN Gaum: Louise Brealey SUN Obsle: David Acton SUN Shusgis: Stephen Critchlow SUN Esvans and Asra: Sam Dale SUN Sorve: Ayesha Antoine SUN Doctor: Rhiannon Neads SUN Skipper: David Hounslow SUN Author: Ursula Le Guin SUN Adaptor: Judith Adams SUN Director: Allegra McIlroy SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05qynrn (Listen) SUN Mexican Literature and the London Book Fair SUN SUN As the literature of Mexico is celebrated at the London Book SUN Fair, we talk to two of the country's contemporary writers. SUN SUN Mariella discusses The Story of My Teeth with Valeria SUN Luiselli - an idiosyncratic tale of Gustav "Highway" Sanchez SUN who becomes the best auctioneer in the world by weaving SUN elaborate stories for his unusual collectibles. SUN SUN Mexican novelist and contributor to the "Crack Manifesto" SUN Jorge Volpi makes his case for reinventing Mexico's literary SUN legacy. SUN SUN This month's guest editor Mark Richards of John Murray picks SUN out his top tip for May - Lawrence Osborne's Hunters In the SUN Dark. SUN SUN And in the Reading Clinic, writer Melissa Harrison offers up SUN literary advice for visiting students as she picks out her SUN recommendations for depictions of English contemporary life SUN in short stories. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Valeria Luiselli SUN Interviewed Guest: Jorge Volpi SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Richards SUN Interviewed Guest: Melissa Harrison SUN SUN 16:30 We Real Cool: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks SUN b05qynrq (Listen) SUN Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet whose SUN imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the SUN first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. SUN Narrated by her daughter Nora Brooks Blakely, this is a SUN portrait of her life through the voices of friends and SUN fellow poets - including Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti and SUN Sharon Olds. SUN SUN Gwendolyn Brooks published her first poem at thirteen and by SUN the time she was sixteen she was publishing in local SUN newspapers serving Chicago's black population. Early critics SUN welcomed Brooks as a new voice, 'a real poet writing SUN poignant social documents.' SUN SUN Her poems are portraits of the ordinary people she observed SUN from day to day. She moulded them into memorable characters SUN like Annie Allen, Rudolph Reed and Satin Legs Smith. Her SUN deepest compassion though was for young people, particularly SUN struggling youth. Her most famous poem, We Real Cool, is SUN about children skipping school. It's still spoken aloud SUN today by school children who learn it by heart. SUN SUN Brooks believed she had a social and political role as a SUN poet and became one of the most visible articulators of the SUN "black aesthetic" as the Black Arts Movement took off in the SUN late 1960s. Her commitment to nurturing black literature led SUN her to leave major publisher Harper & Row in favour of a SUN fledgling black company. When she was appointed to the post SUN of poet laureate of Illinois in 1968, she used her role to SUN visit schools, prisons, and rehabilitation centres to help SUN people 'see the poetry in their lives.' She always claimed SUN her greatest achievement was teaching people that poetry SUN isn't a formal activity but an art form within the reach of SUN everybody. SUN SUN Produced by Sarah Cuddon SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Edge b05qgd0n (Listen) SUN As cruise missiles and precision bombs rained down on Iraq SUN in 1990 some believed it marked the dawn of a new age in SUN which the US would stand supreme and police the world. But SUN this was a fleeting moment of overwhelming military SUN superiority relying on forces built up over a decades-long SUN Cold War arms race. SUN SUN Almost everything that has happened since Operation Desert SUN Storm, when the US and its allies kicked Saddam Hussein out SUN of Kuwait, has served to demonstrate the limitations of SUN Western power and the rise of other forces. Defence spending SUN has been falling in many NATO states, and assumptions made SUN at the end of the Cold War about the nature of future SUN threats now look questionable. SUN SUN With Vladimir Putin challenging Europe, China's inexorable SUN economic rise and Islamic radicalism remaking the Middle SUN East, the West seems everywhere on the defensive. And SUN there's disturbing evidence to suggest that Western forces - SUN including even those of the United States - are nowhere near SUN as strong as many might assume. In this programme Mark Urban SUN asks an uncomfortable question: Is the West losing its SUN military edge? SUN SUN Producer: Mike Gallagher SUN Editor: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05qvqpp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05qvyyy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05qvyz0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvyz2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05qyvyg (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the SUN past week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05qyvyj (Listen) SUN Rob wants a private word with Tom, and Ian confides. SUN SUN 19:16 The Vote Now Show b05qk706 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN A series of election specials from the Now Show gang kicks SUN off this evening. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis will host a SUN series of six shows spread across four weeks in the lead up SUN to the General Election. With the help of Jon Holmes, Pippa SUN Evans, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests from SUN across the political spectrum they'll give their own unique SUN take on the election news and shenanigans. In the first show SUN there'll be their critique of the second of the leader's SUN debates. SUN SUN In the first episode Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined SUN by Jon Holmes, Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn, Sean Kemp and Nish SUN Kumar. SUN SUN Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. SUN SUN Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Steve Punt SUN Presenter: Hugh Dennis SUN Panellist: Jon Holmes SUN Panellist: Pippa Evans SUN Panellist: Mitch Benn SUN Panellist: Sean Kemp SUN Panellist: Nish Kumar SUN Producer: Alexandra Smith SUN Producer: Joe Nunnery SUN Producer: Rachel Wheeley SUN SUN 19:45 Liars' League b05qyvyl (Listen) SUN The Wallet SUN SUN The Liars' League, which launched in 2007, is a live short SUN story event now spanning the globe. 'Liars' because in a SUN sense fiction and acting are both lies - and a 'league' SUN because a company of actors and writers work to bring an SUN evening of themed stories to an audience, once a month in SUN London, New York and Hong Kong. SUN SUN This is the third of three stories recorded at the Liars' SUN League events. In Hong Kong the theme is 'Cruelty and SUN Mercy', in New York it's 'Entrances and Exits', and in SUN London - where we are this week - the theme is 'Boom and SUN Bust'. SUN SUN Each story brings a distinct flavour of its country of SUN origin - of the culture, people and concerns. Each is SUN populated by ubiquitous skyscrapers and familiar SUN corporations and brands, but at the same time beats to an SUN older rhythm of the people and their traditions - from a SUN Catholic boyhood in New York, through life in London's SUN drabber suburbs, to old traditions surviving amidst the SUN bustle of modern Hong Kong. SUN SUN In The Wallet by Joshan Esfandiari Martin, love from SUN generation to generation struggles to breathe in a city SUN suffocated by money. From the drab suburbs of London in the SUN 1960s to the most glamorous restaurants of today's capital, SUN every emotion and romantic gesture is compromised by money. SUN SUN Read by David Mildon SUN SUN Produced by David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: David Mildon SUN Producer: David Roper SUN Writer: Joshan Esfandiari SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b05qk6zb (Listen) SUN This week, our look at how the election is being covered SUN across BBC radio takes us to 5Live for the launch of their SUN #FridayTakeover. Each week, the station is selecting one key SUN politician to face individual listener questions. Stephen SUN Mawhinney, the station's Head of News, explains how the SUN nature of a political interview changes when led by the SUN public while presenter Nicky Campbell discusses the balance SUN between handing the reins over to listeners and knowing when SUN to regain control. SUN SUN The recent Trust review of BBC music stations concluded that SUN Radio 3 needs to make its identity and programming more SUN distinctive in certain areas. Recently appointed Controller SUN Alan Davey has begun to set out his vision for the station's SUN future and, in this week's Feedback, he addresses listeners SUN points about what they want. SUN SUN The History of Ideas series hosted by Melvyn Bragg has SUN provided listeners with much food for thought on subjects of SUN freedom, morality and the origin of time. Yet, despite SUN offering heavyweight discussions that demand the full SUN attention of their audience, the use of sound effects and SUN cartoon noises has led to complaints from some listeners. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05qk6z7 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Nobel prize winning author Günter Grass who challenged SUN Germans to confront their uncomfortable past. SUN SUN The anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger who fought against the SUN medicalisation of child birth. SUN SUN Andrew Porter, the distinguished music critic of the SUN Financial Times and then the New Yorker. SUN SUN Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, the colourful champion poker SUN player: Victoria Coren pays tribute. SUN SUN And Percy Sledge, best known for his hit "When A Man Loves A SUN Woman". SUN SUN Günter Grass SUN SUN Matthew spoke to arts journalist and broadcaster Margarete SUN von Schwarzkopf and to his friend Michael Naumann, former SUN German Secretary of Culture. SUN SUN Born 16 October 1927; died 13 April 2015 aged 87. SUN SUN Sheila Kitzinger SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Angela Phillips, professor of Journalism at SUN Goldsmiths College London. SUN SUN Born 29 March 1929; died 11 April 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Andrew Porter SUN SUN Matthew spoke to fellow music critic Jeremy Noble and to SUN John Allison, Editor of *Opera.* SUN SUN Born 26 August 1928; died 3 April 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott SUN SUN Last Word spoke to SUN writer, presenter and poker players Victoria Coren and Neil SUN Channing. SUN SUN Born April 4 1954, died April 6 2015 aged 61. SUN SUN Percy Sledge SUN SUN Born 25 November 1940; died 14 April 2015 aged 74. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Margarete von Schwarzkopf SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Naumann SUN Interviewed Guest: Angela Phillips SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Noble SUN Interviewed Guest: Victoria Coren SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Channing SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05qvn36 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05qydx4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05qjypl (Listen) SUN Last Tango SUN SUN Less than fifteen years since Argentina last plunged into a SUN serious economic crisis, there are fears that trouble is SUN looming again. Peter Day reports from Buenos Aires on why SUN the country finds it so hard to learn from its past and SUN hears about potential solutions. He also watches the world SUN famous tango dancing. SUN SUN Producer: Keith Moore. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05qyyvn (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05qyyvq (Listen) SUN Julia Hartley Brewer analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05qjvnr (Listen) SUN Jemaine Clement; Dark Horse; Cry of the City; Christopher SUN Young SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement discusses his SUN vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows and reveals SUN why they used their IT engineer called Stu to play an IT SUN engineer called Stu. SUN SUN Jan Vokes is the star of a new documentary Dark Horse about SUN the staff and members of a working men's club in the South SUN Wales valleys who clubbed together to buy a race horse. She SUN tells Francine about her new-found fame, and what it's like SUN to see her face plastered on billboards opposite the SUN supermarket where she works. SUN SUN The producer of The Inbetweeners Movie, Christopher Young, SUN reveals why he pumped the profits from the record-breaking SUN comedy into a delicate Portuguese art-movie, The Invisible SUN Life. SUN SUN Antonia Quirke enters the murky world of Cry Of The City, a SUN forgotten film noir from 1948 that's about to be re-released SUN and re-assessed. SUN SUN Dark Horse SUN The star of Dark Horse directed by Louise Osmond and SUN produced by Judith Dawson SUN SUN Ultimate Film Noir SUN What’s your ultimate film noir? Is it *Cry of the City* SUN like Antonia Quirke said? How about *Nightmare Alley *or SUN *Out of the Past* as Francine suggested? Let us know YOUR SUN noir-est film noir at filmprogramme@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Jemaine Clement SUN Interviewed Guest: Jan Vokes SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05qy96q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 APRIL 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05qvz03 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05qgm0r (Listen) MON The Ethnography Award 'Shortlist' MON MON The Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in MON association with the British Sociological Association, MON presents a special programme devoted to the academic MON research which has been short listed for our second annual MON award for a study that has made a significant contribution MON to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the everyday life MON of a culture or sub culture. Laurie Taylor is joined by MON three of the judges: Professor Beverley Skeggs, Professor MON Adam Kuper and Dr Coretta Phillips. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Bev Skeggs MON Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College London MON Find out more about Professor MON Bev Skeggs MON MON MON Coretta Phillips MON Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Social MON Policy at the London School of Economics and Political MON Science MON Find our more about Dr MON Coretta Phillips MON MON MON Adam Kuper MON Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of MON Economics MON Find our more about Professor MON Adam Kuper MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05qy96n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvz05 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvz07 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvz09 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05qvz0c (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05sg7nq (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day the Rev'd Dr MON Martyn Atkins. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05r0b2q (Listen) MON Election concerns of migrant workers in East Anglia; sheep MON DNA in old manuscripts MON MON East European migrant workers in East Anglia tell Anna Hill MON their pre-election concerns. Staff from Poland and the MON Baltic states at Traditional Norfolk Poultry near MON Attleborough reflect on why they came to UK to work, and MON have put down roots. MON MON Also, what examining the sheep DNA in old manuscripts can MON tell us about how the UK's livestock have evolved. MON Archaeologist Professor Matthew Collins of the University of MON York tells Anna why he looks not at the words on the old MON parchment documents, but at the follicle patterns of the MON leather, as he tries to identify the ancient breeds whose MON pelts became pages. MON MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05qvz0f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcdf (Listen) MON Little Grebe MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Kate Humble presents the little grebe. Little grebes are our MON smallest grebes. They're dumpy birds with dark brown MON feathers and in the breeding season have a very obvious MON chestnut patch on their necks and cheeks. Little grebes are MON secretive birds, especially in the breeding season when they MON lurk in reeds and rushes or dive to avoid being seen. MON MON Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05r0b2v (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05r0b31 (Listen) MON Life Underwater MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe explores life in the oceans. MON The biologist Luke Rendell studies the evolution of social MON learning in whales and dolphins, and seeks to define their MON culture beneath the waves. The seahorse is a creature with a MON rich mythical history and is the subject of Andrew Motion's MON latest poem, while the biologist Helen Scales weaves MON science, natural history and culture in her story of the MON seashell. The biochemist Nick Lane looks back over 4 billion MON years to explain why life is the way it is and believes MON energy flux is the vital factor that has driven the origin MON and evolution of life. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Luke Rendell MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Scales MON Interviewed Guest: Andrew Motion MON Interviewed Guest: Nick Lane MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05nsxyn (Listen) MON Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot, Episode 1 MON MON Mark Vanhoenacker always had a passion for flying, but MON didn't ever really consider it as a job, until his research MON as a young academic began to frustrate him and the tug of MON the skies once more made its presence felt. MON MON Today he is a long distance pilot for one of the world's MON major airlines. MON MON Episode 1: MON Take-off and the fascination with height - from small town MON Massachusetts to the busy skies over Europe. MON MON Read by William Hope MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: William Hope MON Author: Mark Vanhoenacker MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05r0b39 (Listen) MON Not Just Morning Sickness, Abstract Artist Sonia Delaunay, MON Couples in Therapy MON MON Why more couples are turning to therapy before their MON relationship gets rocky. Abstract artist Sonia Delaunay MON who's being given her first retrospective in Britain at the MON Tate Modern nearly 40 years after her death and why her work MON was overshadowed by that of her husband. There's a call for MON severe sickness in pregnancy to be taken more seriously. MON With less than three weeks to go before the general MON election, we hear from our Election Panel on the latest MON campaigning. A young woman who was sexually assaulted in MON Uganda on why she's returning to the country to offer MON support to other women who've been attacked. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Anne Peacock. MON MON Election Panel MON Manifestos are out, debates have been had and up and down MON the country the hard-graft of door knocking and campaigning MON goes on. How does the election feel to women who live and MON breathe party politics; those who pound the pavements or MON agonise over the details of party policy? And how has live MON changed for those who support the established Westminster MON parties? Jane talks to Alice Thomas from Liberal Democrat MON Women, Emma Burnell contributing Editor from Labour List and MON Kate Maltby, Associate Fellow of Bright Blue. MON MON Severe Pregnancy Sickness MON MON Severe and debilitating pregnancy sickness - Hyperemesis MON Gravidarum - is still not recognised and taken seriously MON according to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and MON Pregnancy Sickness Support. The Thalidomide tragedy MON continues to cast a shadow over women’s care and the denial MON of some of the most effective drugs can lead to abortion of MON wanted pregnancies. MON MON Despite awareness of the condition through coverage of the MON Duchess of Cambridge’s experience many women also still MON feel the decision to terminate is stigmatised and judged by MON those who feel it is “just” morning sickness, a perception MON which only adds to the distress of ending a wanted MON pregnancy. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Jane Garvey talks to Caitlin Dean from Pregnancy Sickness MON Support about what needs to be done to support the MON thousands of women it affects. MON MON MON MON MON MON Fighting for Ugandan Rape Victims MON MON According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, in 2012 24% of MON women surveyed reported that their first sexual experience MON was rape. In 2011, the country had 7 690 cases of defilement MON reported. After a year living in Uganda and falling victim MON to a sexual attack, one young woman was motivated to create MON a charity to protect victims of rape and to supply health MON advice and support. AND - Attacked Not Defeated - is that MON charity. We spoke to her about her mission, and in the MON studio we speak live to Catherine Byaruhanga, the BBC’s MON Correspondent for Uganda. MON MON You can find out more about AND by clicking here. MON http://www.attackednotdefeated.org/ MON MON MON MON MON Sonia Delaunay MON MON Sonia Delaunay was French-Jewish painter, designer, and MON self-made businesswoman. Born in 1885, she pioneered MON abstract art as something to be lived in, turning everyday MON items into masterpieces. Despite her success, she has since MON been overlooked, often overshadowed by her husband and MON fellow artist Robert Delaunay. Nearly 40 years after her MON death she is being given her first retrospective in Britain, MON at the Tate Modern. Jane talks to the curator of the MON exhibition, Juliet Bingham, about the life of Sonia Delaunay MON and why she deserves the attention. MON o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Couples Therapy MON MON Couples therapy typically happens when a relationship starts MON to break down. Marriage counselling is expected if a couple MON is having serious problems and wants to resolve them - not MON if they are happy and have just started dating. As more MON marriages end in divorce and more people have individual MON therapy there has been an increase in the number of couples MON who want ‘relationship classes’ in order to boost their MON chances of staying together, manage conflict and communicate MON better. Professor Janet Reibstein, Visiting Professor in MON Psychology at University of Exeter, and the author and MON journalist Daisy Buchanan, join Jane to discuss whether MON having therapy so early on in a relationship is looking for MON trouble and potentially harmful or the secret to a MON successful marriage. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Anne Peacock MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05r3sr8 (Listen) MON The Blast of War, Helmand MON MON A new drama serial by Michael Symmons Roberts. A British MON soldier fighting in Afghanistan is sent on a journey of MON atonement after a comrade is killed in one of the last MON military actions of 2015. With Sam Troughton as Sam, Hattie MON Morahan as Bea, Bryan Dick as Eddie and Jordan Bernarde as MON Evan. Music by Jon Nicholls. Director: Tim Dee. MON MON Credits MON Sam: Sam Troughton MON Bea: Hattie Morahan MON Eddie: Bryan Dick MON Evan: Jordan Bernarde MON Director: Tim Dee MON Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts MON MON 11:00 The Latte Linguists and Other Espresso Entrepreneurs MON b05r3srb (Listen) MON Coffee shops are increasingly popular as places to work and, MON in some cases, are being designed specifically to cater for MON those who prefer to work there rather than in a conventional MON office. MON MON We meet people who like to work out of coffee shops - from MON the language teacher giving Arabic lessons in Manchester, to MON the web start-up operating out of a coffee shop in Covent MON Garden. Chris Ward, author of Out of Office, discusses how MON coffee shops offer a different work ethic to the MON conventional office, and we hear how coffee culture is MON increasingly international from an Italian strategist who MON explains the difference between coffee culture in Italy and MON Moscow. MON MON We visit coffee shops in London and Manchester to find out MON how they have been designed to cater for this fast-growing MON sector, offering a public space which encourages MON entrepreneurs to work for hours at a time and even hold MON meetings for their start-up. And we hear from Debra MON Howcroft, a Manchester University professor, about the MON recent growth in self-employed people and why a coffee shop MON environment would appeal to them. MON MON Producer: Philip Reevell MON A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice b05r3srd (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Comedian Deborah Frances-White tells the true story of her MON teenage years as a Jehovah's Witness. MON MON Assisted by fellow comedians Thom Tuck, Alex Lowe, and MON Cariad Lloyd, Deborah recalls her treks around the streets MON of Brisbane where she gets abducted by a gang of bikers and MON tries to convert a Cuban jazz musician. MON MON Deborah turns her comic spotlight on the trials of being a MON trainee witness and of some of the unexpected fellow MON travellers she meets on the way, including Peter Andre and MON Michael Jackson. MON MON Producer: Alan Nixon MON A So Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05qvz0j (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Election Snapshots b05r3srg (Listen) MON Winston Churchill, 1945 MON MON Election Snapshots reveals the stories behind five iconic MON photographs from British General Elections since 1945. MON Political insiders and distinguished photographers discuss MON how campaigning has changed, from Winston Churchill through MON Thatcher, to Blair and Brown. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b05r3srj (Listen) MON Seaweed Industry; Repeat Fraud; Banishing Beige MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05qvz0l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05r3srl (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05qyvyj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b05r78dw (Listen) MON My Dear Bessie MON MON A love story in letters played out against the backdrop of MON the Second World War between Chris Barker, a solider in MON North Africa, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter at MON the Foreign Office in London. MON MON Compiled by Simon Garfield and adapted for radio by Sara MON Davies MON MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins MON MON A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of MON love, longing and frustration. MON MON On September 5th 1943, Chris Barker, a Signalman stationed MON near Tobruk decided to write to a former work colleague, MON Bessie Moore, back in London. The unexpected warmth of MON Bessie's reply changed their lives forever. MON MON Chris and Bessie's love letters first appeared in Simon MON Garfield's book To The Letter, they have toured literary MON festivals as part of Letters Live before getting their own MON book, My Dear Bessie, published this year on Valentine's MON Day. MON MON Credits MON Chris: Benedict Cumberbatch MON Bessie: Louise Brealey MON Irena: Jane Slavin MON Producer: Gemma Jenkins MON Adaptor: Sara Davies MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b05r3srp (Listen) MON The Final, 2015 MON MON (17/17) MON The 2015 season of the most durable general knowledge quiz MON of them all reaches its climax, with the Final from the MON Radio Theatre in London. Russell Davies welcomes the four MON competitors who have come unscathed through heats and MON semi-finals, and could now be just half an hour away from MON becoming the 62nd BBC Brain of Britain. MON MON Will they be able to name the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the MON first female US Secretary of State, or the town where Dylan MON Thomas is buried? MON MON Every point could be crucial - and the gleaming 2015 Brain MON of Britain trophy awaits the winner. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05qygcj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Arts Technologica b05r3ssp (Listen) MON Art MON MON Martha Lane Fox explores how artists collaborate creatively MON online. In the age of the internet, who needs galleries? MON MON Just twenty years ago, the internet was perceived as MON extraordinary and new. Now it is part of our daily routine. MON In the mid-90s, the early internet facilitated collaboration MON between international artists who wanted to challenge the MON structures of the traditional arts world. Twenty years MON later, how do artists use a more corporate and commercial MON internet? Is it a medium or a marketing tool? And what MON relationships do traditional galleries have with digital MON art? For some artists, the internet is a means of exploring MON and highlighting how digital technologies shape our lives. MON MON Featuring artists and curators including James Bridle, Ben MON Vickers, Thomson and Craighead, Kate Genevieve and David MON OReilly. MON MON Producer: Gill Davies MON An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b05r3ssr (Listen) MON Series 7, Magic MON MON Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law goes "Any sufficiently advanced MON technology is indistinguishable from magic." So does that MON apply to the modern digital world, Aleks Krotoski asks the MON question with some surprising results. From people living MON under the 'curse' of electro-sensitivity to the rituals we MON all go through to ward off evil spirits like updating our MON anti-virus software. MON MON She'll also discover how simply changing the context of a MON familiar technology can imbue it with new magical meaning as MON she wanders the night-time Galloway forests hearing music MON emerging from the darkness, or radio as its better known. MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON Diane Schou MON MON Diane Schou lives in the Quiet Zone, in West Virginia, MON because she believes that electrosensitivity causes her to MON become tremendously ill when in contact with electrical MON signals. MON MON She gives us a tour of her home and explains why technology MON is such a curse for her. MON MON Matthew Hutson MON MON Matthew is a science writer based in New York city, and MON author of ‘The Seven Laws of Magical Thinking’. MON MON He told Aleks just how much magical thinking we do in our MON everyday lives – for good or for ill. MON MON MON MON Juliette Kristensen MON MON Design historian Juliette Kristensen discusses the MON connections between magic and technology that arose during MON the 19th century; from stage magician John Neville Maskelyne MON to the Lumirere brothers and the birth of cinema. MON MON Dan Novy and Greg Borenstein MON MON Dan and Greg are both artists and technologists, and MON together lead the “Indistinguishable From… Magic as MON Interface, Technology, and Tradition” at MIT, teaching MON students how magical thinking and the theatrics of illusions MON can inform cutting edge technology. MON MON They talk to us about how modern life and technology is MON infused with both magical thinking, and magical theatrics… MON MON MON MON Alex Proctor MON MON Alex has been a professional magician for over 25 years, and MON in 2005/6 was elected to the prestigious office of MON President of The Scottish Conjurers Association. MON MON He takes us through the precision needed to perform an act MON of magic, and how much control a magician can wield over MON their audience. MON MON 17:00 PM b05r3sst (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvz0p (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Dilemma b05r3ssw (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel, MON finding the tipping point of their personal morality. This MON week, it's the turn of comedians Jo Brand and Michael Legge, MON musician and Radio 3 presenter Mara Carlyle, and journalist MON Matthew Parris. They discuss, among other things, MON unfortunate children's names and bad birthday presents, and MON help the audience with their real life dilemmas - although MON with "help" like this... Episode three of six. MON MON Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by MON Danielle Ward. MON MON Devised by ... Danielle Ward MON Producer ... Ed Morrish. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Jo Brand MON Panellist: Mara Carlyle MON Panellist: Matthew Parris MON Panellist: Michael Legge MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05r3svq (Listen) MON Helen cannot believe her ears, and the birds are in full MON voice. MON MON 19:16 Front Row b05r3svs (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05r3sr8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Women in Blue b05r3svv (Listen) MON Former senior police detective Jackie Malton - the MON inspiration for Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in MON the TV series Prime Suspect - presents a personal and MON hard-hitting analysis of how the police have tackled sexism MON and misogyny in their ranks. MON MON She assesses whether the laddish canteen-culture and sexist MON attitudes among male police officers has really changed MON since the 70s and 80s, and whether the force has genuinely MON created a safe and equal environment for men and women to MON work in. MON MON A 2012 survey found that more than four out of ten female MON police officers in England and Wales were so disillusioned MON with their profession that they had seriously considered MON quitting. At the same time, high proportions of women police MON officers claim to have been sexually harassed and in some MON cases assaulted by male colleagues. MON MON Jackie talks to a number of recently retired senior figures, MON as well as serving officers. MON MON Producers: David Prest and Julie Bindel MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05qjq6f (Listen) MON Who's Afraid of Teatr Doc? MON MON Teatr doc was founded 12 years ago by playwrights who MON couldn't find a venue willing to stage their MON documentary-style plays that often challenge the status quo. MON In December the theatre was raided and forced to shut its MON doors but it quickly reopened in new premises and is still MON cocking a snook at the authorities. "Doc" as it is known to MON those who frequent it, has been recognised internationally MON as one of Russia's most prolific, innovative, and socially MON engaged theatre companies. For Crossing Continents Lucy Ash MON attends the opening night in the theatre's new home, and MON asks its actors, directors and its audience what the theatre MON says about life in Russia today. MON MON 21:00 Future Speak b05qgcgs (Listen) MON Look closely and you'll see that computer code is written MON all over our offices, our homes and now in our classrooms MON too. MON MON The recent Lords' Digital Skills report says the UK's MON digital potential is at a make or break point, with a skills MON gap to be plugged and a generation gap to be bridged. MON MON As technologist Tom Armitage argues, there's also a leap of MON the imagination to be made, to conceive of the wider MON benefits of reading, writing, and even thinking in code. MON MON In Future Speak, Tom sets out to decode digital literacy for MON the so-called 'second machine age'. He considers why and how MON we should become fluent in the language of computing and, MON once we've mastered it, what we might do with it. With MON perspectives from education, industry, academia, the media, MON science and the arts, he explores a world where, MON increasingly, code is what you make of it. MON MON Baroness Morgan explains why digital skills are high on the MON House of Lords' agenda; Ian Livingstone CBE, role-playing MON game creator, tells us why he campaigned for coding in MON schools; and Professor John Naughton considers what the rest MON of us should learn to engage democratically in the digital MON age. MON MON Tom visits Benton Park in Newcastle, claiming to be the MON first primary school in the country to boast a Raspberry Pi MON Orchestra and speaks to Clare Sutcliffe who founded Code MON Club before computer science made it onto the curriculum. MON MON Outside of the classroom, Tom finds out how the STEMettes MON are using coding to increase the presence of women in MON science, technology, engineering and maths - and he MON discovers why Imogen Heap now prefers to make music with MON wearable technology. MON MON Producer: Kirsty Mcquire MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05r0b31 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05qvz0s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05r3tb9 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05r3tbc (Listen) MON Gorsky, Episode 6 MON MON When the enigmatic Russian billionaire Roman Gorsky enters a MON quiet Chelsea Mews bookshop, Nick - himself an immigrant MON from the former Yugoslavia - has no idea of the impact this MON man will have over his work and private life. As Nick gets MON drawn in to the world of the Russian community in London he MON begins to learn that its richest and most elusive member, MON Gorsky, is driven by one thing alone - his passion for MON Natalia Summerscale. MON MON But although Gorsky met Natalia when she was not much more MON than a child in Russia, she is now married to a wealthy MON Englishman. A fact that Gorsky is determined to overlook. MON MON Read by Philip Arditti MON MON Written by Vesna Goldsworthy MON Abridged by Isobel Creed MON MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Philip Arditti MON Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy MON Abridger: Isobel Creed MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b05qgch7 (Listen) MON The Pedant MON MON What is a pedant, and where does pedantry come from? Michael MON Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss with Times writer Oliver MON Kamm, who describes himself as a "reformed pedant". MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b04g86bx (Listen) MON Series 4, Enhancement MON MON Pints and Philosophical Problems with Matthew Sweet. In this MON series, Matthew asks whether the sun will rise tomorrow, MON whether one person should be poisoned to save five others MON and whether a female tennis champion deserves the same prize MON money as her male counterpart. This week, should we take a MON pill that would make us less racist and less aggressive? In MON the snug with Matthew is philosopher Julian Savulescu. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 APRIL 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05qvz1r (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05nsxyn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvz1t (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvz1w (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvz1y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05qvz20 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05rjrvt (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day the Rev'd Dr TUE Martyn Atkins. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05r3tbl (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcfq (Listen) TUE Stock Dove TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Kate Humble presents the stock dove. Perhaps 'stock pigeon' TUE would be a better name, because they're like slightly TUE smaller versions of the woodpigeon. Unlike their bigger TUE relatives they have no white marks on their wings or neck TUE and are more blue-grey in colour. When they fly, they look TUE dumpier ...stockier you might say. Unlike woodpigeons, stock TUE doves haven't taken to a life in town and they're mainly TUE birds of wooded farmland. TUE TUE Stock dove (Columba oenas) TUE Webpage image courtesy of Ernie Janes (rspb-images.com). TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05r3tc8 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b05r3tcb (Listen) TUE Susan Jebb TUE TUE Fat, sugar, salt - we all know we should eat less of them, TUE and take more exercise, but as a nation with an ever TUE expanding waistline we are becoming increasingly overweight. TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to Professor Susan Jebb, the UK's TUE authority on obesity, who has spent much of her career TUE trying to help us put those good intentions into practice. TUE TUE Her challenge is not for the faint hearted. When she first TUE got interested in obesity, as a research scientist, rates TUE were already on the rise. Yet no one took the problem TUE seriously. Today, with over sixty percent of adults TUE overweight or obese, Susan remains unwavering in her TUE commitment to ensuring we do. TUE TUE As Professor of Diet and Population Health at Oxford TUE University and Chair of the government's Responsibility Deal TUE Food Network, she wants all of us and the food industry to TUE improve the nation's health by translating the science of TUE what we eat into practice. TUE TUE And health is what it's all about. Obesity now poses such a TUE danger that it's been dubbed the 'new smoking'. TUE TUE Produced by Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03s6ylh (Listen) TUE Mathew Waddington TUE TUE Anita Anand knew she was meant to be a journalist from the TUE moment she covered her first news story. An instinct she TUE followed proved to be correct, and convinced her that she TUE should pursue journalism. TUE TUE In this series of interviews for 'One to One', Anita TUE discovers what drives people towards certain careers. Was TUE there an epiphany, something they discovered in their very TUE core, or a series of events that motivated them? TUE TUE This week's guest is Mathew Waddington, a partner in a TUE Midlands and South-West based legal firm. He entered law TUE relatively late having worked in the travel industry, after TUE studying history. He was a trainee solicitor, unsure where TUE to specialise, when his daughter, who was born with a rare TUE chromosomal abnormality, died. It suddenly became clear to TUE him that he should work in children's law. He became a TUE Children's Panel solicitor representing abused children in TUE care cases, as well as parents and grandparents in other TUE Children Act cases. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE Mathew Waddington TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05pr03b (Listen) TUE Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot, Episode 2 TUE TUE Mark Vanhoenacker always had a passion for flying, but TUE didn't ever really consider it as a job, until his research TUE as a young academic began to frustrate him and the tug of TUE the skies once more made its presence felt. TUE TUE Today he is a long distance pilot for one of the world's TUE major airlines. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE 'Place- lag' and journeying through time zones. TUE TUE Read by William Hope TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: William Hope TUE Author: Mark Vanhoenacker TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05r3td1 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05r3td3 (Listen) TUE The Blast of War, Gallipoli TUE TUE A new drama serial by Michael Symmons Roberts. A British TUE soldier fighting in Afghanistan is sent on a journey of TUE atonement after a comrade is killed in one of the last TUE military actions of 2015. Unwittingly he is transported back TUE to Gallipoli in 1915 and must relive the horror of war. With TUE Sam Troughton as Sam, Hattie Morahan as Bea, Bryan Dick as TUE Eddie and Jordan Bernarde as Evan. Music by Jon Nicholls. TUE Director: Tim Dee. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sam: Sam Troughton TUE Bea: Hattie Morahan TUE Eddie: Bryan Dick TUE Evan: Jordan Bernarde TUE Director: Tim Dee TUE Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts TUE TUE 11:00 Forensics in Crisis b05r3tf1 (Listen) TUE Crisis in Research TUE TUE There is a growing sense of crisis inside the world of TUE forensic science. Recent high profile cases such as Jill TUE Dando and Amanda Knox have highlighted serious problems with TUE the way testing is carried out. TUE TUE Techniques from fingerprint analysis to DNA identification TUE have been found wanting, as cases collapse and are TUE overturned. Plummeting forensic spending by police forces TUE has left a newly privatised industry in England and Wales on TUE the brink of failure. TUE TUE In this series, science journalist Linda Geddes investigates TUE why forensic science has fallen into crisis, and what can be TUE done to restore confidence in the field. TUE TUE Programme 1: TUE TUE The UK was once a world leader in forensic research, with TUE DNA fingerprinting invented at the University of Leicester TUE in 1984, a technique which revolutionised the investigation TUE of crime. TUE TUE Now forensic scientists claim we are falling dangerously TUE behind the rest of the world in terms of research and TUE development, relying on outdated equipment and unvalidated TUE techniques. TUE TUE Linda Geddes hears from leading researchers who are speaking TUE out to try and prevent more miscarriages of justice. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b05r3tf3 (Listen) TUE Series 20, Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G Major TUE TUE Bach's Cello Suite No I in G major is one of the most TUE frequently performed and recognisable solo compositions ever TUE written for cello. Yet it was virtually unknown for almost TUE two hundred years until the Catalan cellist, Pablo Casals TUE discovered an edition in a thrift shop in Barcelona. Casals TUE became the first to record it and the suites are now TUE cherished by musicians across the globe. TUE TUE The world renowned cellist, Steven Isserlis describes his TUE relationship with the piece and why it still surprises and TUE excites him. Fellow cellists Richard Jenkinson and Jane TUE Salmon talk about the challenge of playing it and we hear TUE from the Dominic Martens, a member of the National Youth TUE Orchestra and his teacher, Nick Jones as they explore the TUE piece together. TUE TUE Garden designer Julie Moir Messervy, describes how Yo-Yo TUE Ma's recording inspired her to design The Toronto Music TUE Garden and doctor Heidi Kimberly explains why she chose the TUE piece for her wedding and why she believes the suite to have TUE healing powers. TUE TUE While historian and author, Eric Siblin, reveals the TUE extraordinary history of the suites and why some still argue TUE that they was written by Bach's second wife Anna Magdalena. TUE TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05qvz23 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Election Snapshots b05rn5y2 (Listen) TUE Margaret Thatcher, 1983 TUE TUE Election Snapshots reveals the stories behind five iconic TUE photographs from British General Elections since 1945. TUE Political insiders and distinguished photographers discuss TUE how campaigning has changed, from Winston Churchill through TUE Thatcher, to Blair and Brown. TUE In 1983, photographer Herbie Knott gained unique access to TUE Margaret Thatcher during her election campaign, capturing a TUE uniquely anxious moment on election night itself. Herbie TUE discusses the challenges of photographing Margaret Thatcher TUE with her close confidante and aide, Lord Bell. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05r3vlj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05qvz25 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05r3vll (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05r3svq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b05r3w3j (Listen) TUE Euston to Whitechapel TUE TUE When London taxi driver Marshall detours suddenly off the TUE rank at Euston Station to pick up a passenger he mistakes TUE for his estranged daughter, he does not expect what happens TUE next. Over a 45-minute trip to the Royal London Hospital, TUE Marshall revisits the story of his life. TUE TUE Meanwhile, paramedic Corinne is called to attend a road TUE accident outside Euston and also travels to the Royal TUE London, transporting an unconscious patient. As her TUE patient's condition deteriorates it requires all her skill TUE and compassion to keep her passenger alive. TUE TUE For both cabbie Marshall and medic Corinne, a routine TUE afternoon's work turns into a life and death journey. In TUE this real-time drama, Marshall's and Corinne's stories TUE shadow one another and interweave like vehicles caught in TUE London traffic. TUE TUE Written by Nicola Baldwin TUE TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Marshall: Matthew Marsh TUE Corinne: Julia Ford TUE Rachel: Kellie Shirley TUE 'The Turtle': Arthur White TUE Danny: Tom Bevan TUE Writer: Nicola Baldwin TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b05r3w3l (Listen) TUE Series 7, Adaptation TUE TUE Josie Long hears stories of adapting to extraordinary TUE circumstances. From two members of the Arctic 30, who TUE describe adjusting to their new life inside a Russian TUE prison, to one of the researchers perched on top of a TUE Hawaiian volcano testing her psychological capacity to live TUE on another planet. TUE TUE Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05r3w3n (Listen) TUE Eco-Cities TUE TUE Tom Heap investigates whether eco-cities are living up to TUE their promise. TUE TUE In years gone by, Costing the Earth has visited two TUE eco-cities, which both promised that rapid urban development TUE could be green, sustainable and profitable. Dongtan in China TUE was meant to be part of "the quest to create a new world", TUE according to British designers Arup. Masdar in the Arabian TUE Gulf was to have "changed the world", according to British TUE architect Norman Foster. But Dongtan never got built, thanks TUE to Chinese political machinations and corruption, while TUE Masdar has stalled, a victim of the world economic crisis. TUE TUE China is still pressing ahead with over 100 new eco-cities. TUE But does the idea of the eco-city make sense anyway? Critics TUE say that some very ordinary new cities are being branded as TUE "eco" in an attempt to give them a green marketing gloss, TUE and that promoting the idea of the virtuous self-contained TUE eco-city can mask a failure to build sustainably in the rest TUE of the economy. TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05r3w3q (Listen) TUE A Language Without Words TUE TUE Michael Rosen & Laura Wright ask Julian Barratt of The TUE Mighty Boosh and director Steve Oram about inventing a TUE language for their new film, which has no dialogue but TUE instead uses a kind of ape language.. How do you communicate TUE without words, and how have other films and TV programmes TUE tackled the challenge? And what does this tell us about how TUE language works? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05r3w3s (Listen) TUE Series 36, Kulvinder Ghir on Zoran Music TUE TUE Comedian and actor Kulvinder Ghir nominates the life of the TUE artist Zoran Music. Matthew Parris finds out about Music who TUE sketched corpses during and after he survived the horrors of TUE being held at Dachau- a concentration camp in 1944. TUE TUE They are also joined by art critic, curator Michael Peppiatt TUE who was a friend and an admirer of Zoran Music in this TUE week's Great Life. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar . TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Kulvinder Ghir TUE Interviewed Guest: Michael Peppiatt TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05r3w3v (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvz28 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan b05r3w3x (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Max and Ivan are private detectives for whom no case is too TUE small......Sorry, for whom no fee is too small. Jessica TUE Hynes joins them as they investigate a spate of sporting TUE injuries at a sink school. TUE TUE Driven by their love of truth, justice (and the need to pay TUE off their terrifying landlord, Malcolm McMichaelmas), they TUE take on crimes that no-one else would consider. In this TUE case, they investigate a suspicious pattern of injuries TUE affecting a school sports team, days before they are due to TUE meet their bitterest rivals in sporting competition. TUE TUE Max and Ivan - comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan TUE Gonzalez - are a critically acclaimed, award-winning double TUE act who have quickly established themselves as one of the TUE most exciting comedy duos on the circuit. Over the course of TUE the series they are dropped into new worlds, and have to use TUE their skills to penetrate deep into each community. If that TUE means Ivan dressing up as a 14 year old German girl, so be TUE it! TUE TUE Cast: TUE Max....................Max Olesker TUE Ivan...................Ivan Gonzalez TUE Mrs Sampson.....Jessica Hynes TUE Malcolm..............Lewis MacLeod TUE Joculo................David Reed TUE Receptionist......Jessica Ransom TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd TUE A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05r3w3z (Listen) TUE Eddie gets it wrong, but the future is bright for Pip. TUE TUE 19:16 Front Row b05r3w41 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05r3td3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Does the House Always Win? b05r3w43 (Listen) TUE Betting on the outcome of sporting fixtures is so last TUE century. Now you can take a punt on practically anything TUE that happens within a game - from who will win the first set TUE in tennis to who will score the first goal in a football TUE match. TUE Welcome to the world of in-game betting where gamblers test TUE their skill and luck almost as the action happens. It's TUE growing fast as the lucrative new frontier for the betting TUE world, and is particularly popular in the huge Asian market. TUE With events unfolding so quickly, time is everything. But TUE because the television pictures are always a few seconds TUE behind the real-time action, punters at live events will TUE have an advantage over those watching at home or in a TUE betting shop. TUE In this documentary Simon Cox looks at how some exploit the TUE TV delay either by betting online directly from the event or TUE by sending in scouts with hidden devices to feed the TUE information about what's happening ahead of the official TUE television pictures. TUE This practice, often called 'court-siding,' is now illegal TUE in one part in Australia were concerns had been expressed TUE that it could lead to match-fixing and corruption. TUE So what lengths are people prepared to go to gain those TUE crucial seconds that give them an advantage? And what TUE evidence is there that in-game betting poses a threat to the TUE integrity of some our most popular sports? TUE Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Anna Meisel. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05r3wgp (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05r3wgr (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond examines the evidence asking whether screen TUE time is bad for young people. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b05r3tcb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05qvz2c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05r3wgf (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05r3wgt (Listen) TUE Gorsky, Episode 7 TUE TUE Natalia and Tom Summerscale are a golden couple who live an TUE opulent life in Chelsea. TUE TUE When Nick is called upon to deliver an art book for Natalia TUE to their home, The Laurels, he enters a world where TUE everything appears to be perfect. But he soon discovers that TUE Natalia is the woman for whom Gorsky is building his lavish TUE palace, opposite The Laurels, with every intention that she TUE should leave her husband and renew her ten year old promise TUE to him. TUE TUE Tom Summerscale is growing increasingly jealous, and Natalia TUE seems to be waiting before she makes her move. TUE TUE Read by Philip Arditti TUE TUE Written by Vesna Goldsworthy TUE Abridged by Isobel Creed TUE TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Philip Arditti TUE Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy TUE Abridger: Isobel Creed TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 23:00 Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro b01rl708 (Listen) TUE Mark Thomas' award-winning show about his opera-loving TUE father and their relationship. The story of how Mark came to TUE book Royal Opera House singers in his parent's bungalow. TUE TUE Not many South London builders play Opera at work but Mark TUE Thomas' father did. A rough sometimes violent man who swore TUE 'like Cleo Laine with Tourettes', took enormous pride in TUE being working class and yet developed a passion for opera. TUE When he became ill with TUE Progressive Supranuclear palsy - PSP, a degenerative disease TUE leading to paralysis and dementia this giant in Mark's life TUE was reduced to a bed -ridden dependent almost totally unable TUE to communicate with his family. Mark decided to get Royal TUE Opera House singers to perform in his parent's bungalow as a TUE gift to his father. This show is the story of that TUE performance and the lives of his family leading up to it. TUE TUE This is a moving but very funny testament to the love TUE between father and son and the ambiguous relationships we TUE all have with our parents. TUE TUE This recording was of a live performance of the show at the TUE Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera house TUE and features Mark Thomas, recorded interviews with his TUE family and the live performance of Soprano Catherine May, TUE Tenor Michael Bracegirdle and Pianist Jill Farrow. TUE TUE The director of the stage show was Hamish Pirie and the TUE Producer for Radio 4 is Alison Vernon-Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Mark Thomas TUE Singer: Catherine May TUE Singer: Michael Bracegirdle TUE Musician: Jill Farrow TUE Director: Hamish Pirie TUE Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05qvz36 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05pr03b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvz38 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvz3b (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvz3d (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05qvz3g (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05r3x0r (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day the Rev'd Dr WED Martyn Atkins. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05r3x0t (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcgb (Listen) WED Capercaillie WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Kate Humble presents the capercaillie. The bizarre WED knife-grinding, cork-popping display of the male WED capercaillie is one of the strangest sounds produced by any WED bird. The name 'Capercaillie' is derived from the Gaelic for WED 'horse of the woods', owing to the cantering sound, which is WED the start of their extraordinary mating display. These are WED the largest grouse in the world and in the UK they live only WED in ancient Caledonian pine forests. WED WED Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). WED WED 06:00 Today b05r3xbz (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05r3xc1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05pr0gq (Listen) WED Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot, Episode 3 WED WED Mark Vanhoenacker always had a passion for flying, but WED didn't ever really consider it as a job, until his research WED as a young academic began to frustrate him and the tug of WED the skies once more made its presence felt. WED WED Today he is a long distance pilot for one of the world's WED major airlines. WED WED Episode 3: WED A precious passenger and new perspectives on old places. WED WED Read by William Hope WED Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: William Hope WED Author: Mark Vanhoenacker WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05r3xc5 (Listen) WED The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED Presented by Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05r3xc7 (Listen) WED The Blast of War, Waterloo WED WED A new drama serial by Michael Symmons Roberts. A British WED soldier fighting in Afghanistan is sent on a journey of WED atonement after a comrade is killed in one of the last WED military actions of 2015. Unwittingly he is transported back WED to Waterloo in 1815 and must relive the horror of war. With WED Sam Troughton as Sam, Hattie Morahan as Bea, Bryan Dick as WED Eddie and Jordan Bernarde as Evan. Music by Jon Nicholls. WED Director: Tim Dee. WED WED Credits WED Sam: Sam Troughton WED Bea: Hattie Morahan WED Eddie: Bryan Dick WED Evan: Jordan Bernarde WED Director: Tim Dee WED Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05r3ynq (Listen) WED George and Jo - Putting the Brakes On WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who WED understand very well how each is being manipulated by the WED other, in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b05r3yns (Listen) WED Series 19, Episode 3 WED WED Ms Pope runs a tight ship in her class of 27 at Bowling Park WED Primary School: she has little option given her pupils come WED from 18 different countries, speak 31 languages between them WED and have to all pitch in on the frequent occasions when WED classmates leave and new ones arrive WED WED Maja tells me that teaching her Mum English is one of the WED hardest things she has ever attempted: she's given up now! WED She learnt from class-mate Casper, who has taught others in WED the class. Maja is now teaching L'Annee, who arrived from WED the Congo and speaks no English at all. This system of WED catch-up operated by the pupils and ensures that all new WED arrivals can quickly integrate into Bradford life. WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 11:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03xf1f8 (Listen) WED The B&B WED WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, a friend who runs a B&B is in trouble - so it's WED time for Milton to dust off those nylon sheets and let the WED sparks fly. WED WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05qvz3k (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Election Snapshots b05rn6mx (Listen) WED Cherie Blair, 1997 WED WED Election Snapshots reveals the stories behind five iconic WED photographs from British General Elections since 1945. WED Political insiders and distinguished photographers discuss WED how campaigning has changed, from Winston Churchill through WED Thatcher, to Blair and Brown. WED The defining picture for many of the 1997 Labour victory was WED Cherie Blair opening her front door in her nightdress WED oblivious to the media presence which would intrude on every WED aspect of her family's new life. WED The photographer who pictured Cherie's morning after the WED night before, Mathieu Polak, talks about how he captured the WED moment with Cherie Blair herself, who reveals what really WED happened before and after she opened that front door. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b05r3ynv (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05qvz3m (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05r3ynx (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05r3w3z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b05r3z3z (Listen) WED Falling Faces WED WED By Meic Povey WED WED Since the death of his wife, Billy has lived on his own. But WED now it's time to stop grieving, and start living again. WED WED Before she died Billy's wife, Sally, gave him a list of WED things to do once she was gone: Cancel loyalty cards; close WED bank account; retile hallway, and so on. Billy has followed WED her instructions religiously. Now, there is one item left on WED Sally's list - a full-length mirror in the bathroom they WED used to share. WED WED Once in place the mirror dominates the room, and is hard to WED ignore. Billy is forced to confront his image - a man alone WED in the world. But he feels unexpectedly hopeful now the WED mirror is up. He finds he is glancing at his image more and WED more, and Billy realises that despite his 60-odd years he's WED looking pretty good. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Billy: Robert Pugh WED Karen: Sara Lloyd Gregory WED Sally: Eiry Thomas WED Jan: Sue Roderick WED Other Parts: Rhodri Meilir WED Director: James Robinson WED Writer: Meic Povey WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b05r3z41 (Listen) WED Ending a Relationship WED WED How do you sort out money, property and child maintenance WED when a relationship ends? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday 22 April or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Splitting up your finances when a relationship ends can WED cause a great deal of uncertainty. You may be anxious about WED where you will live, supporting your children or how you WED will manage with less money. WED WED If you want advice about the process and cost of splitting WED up or perhaps rebuilding your life as a single parent, Paul WED Lewis and guests will be ready with help and advice on WED Wednesday. WED WED Joining Paul will be: WED WED Jo Edwards, Family Law Partner, Penningtons Manches LLP. WED Rachael Kelsey, Family Law Specialist, Sheehan Kelsey WED Oswald, Edinburgh. WED Lee Healey, Director, Income Max, Entitlement and Benefit WED Check Experts. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05r3wgr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05r3z43 (Listen) WED This year, the BBC's Thinking Allowed, in association with WED the British Sociological Association, launched the second WED year of its award for a study that has made a significant WED contribution to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the WED everyday life of a culture or sub-culture. Laurie Taylor WED presents a special edition of Thinking Allowed to mark the WED announcement of the winner of the 2015 award. WED WED Laurie and a team of leading academics - Professor Beverley WED Skeggs, Professor Adam Kuper, Dr Coretta Phillips and Dr WED Louise Westmarland - were tasked with judging the study that WED has made the most significant contribution to ethnography WED over the past year. Ethnographic studies in the past have WED often illuminated lives which were little understood or WED stigmatised such as the urban poor in 1930s Chicago and the WED mods and rockers of 50s Britain. Typically, the researcher WED observes society from the point of view of the subject of WED the study. WED WED This year's entries covered an extraordinary diversity of WED worlds from Zimbabwean communities in the UK to prisons WED gangs in the American penal system and female drug mules in WED the international cocaine trade. The judges were taken on an WED international journey by submissions whose reach extended WED from the East End of London, Bulgaria and Botswana to WED Northern Ireland and post Soviet Russia. After much WED passionate and lively debate, the winner can be announced. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05r3z45 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05r3z47 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvz3q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05r3z49 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a series of WED bizarre bets from history. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: Paul Byrne WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05r3z4c (Listen) WED Shula meets a friend, while Helen is torn. WED WED 19:16 Front Row b05r3z4f (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05r3xc7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Two Rooms b05r3zbw (Listen) WED Fi Glover hosts a unique experiment as two groups of people WED share their contrasting experiences, and voice their inner WED concerns about the way society is developing, as Britain WED faces arguably the most unpredictable election of modern WED times. WED WED In the second programme, the groups explore whether they WED feel the UK is providing opportunity for its citizens WED through access to education and personal development for WED all. WED WED Producer: Emma Jarvis WED Series Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05r3zby (Listen) WED Peter Bleksley WED WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05r3w3n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05r3xc1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05r3zc0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05r3zc2 (Listen) WED Gorsky, Episode 8 WED WED Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story WED about beauty, money and books. WED WED On a sweltering May afternoon, Nick and Gorsky are invited WED to join the Summerscales, and Gery, at their rooftop pool. WED The shock of discovering the physical resemblance - WED identically misshapen little toes between Gorsky and Natalia WED Summerscale's ten year old daughter Daisy leaves Nick WED stunned. WED WED Tom Summerscale, already embroiled in an affair himself, is WED clearly furious. Finally cards are placed on the table in a WED bar in Notting Hill. But the drama has only just begun to WED come to a head. WED WED Read by Philip Arditti WED WED Written by Vesna Goldsworthy WED Abridged by Isobel Creed WED WED Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Philip Arditti WED Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy WED Abridger: Isobel Creed WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 23:00 The Vote Now Show b05r3zc4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve WED Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests to give WED their own unique take on the week's election shenanigans. WED WED Episode two features Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn, Andy Zaltzman WED and Lolly Adefope. WED WED Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. WED WED Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Steve Punt WED Presenter: Hugh Dennis WED Panellist: Pippa Evans WED Panellist: Mitch Benn WED Panellist: Andy Zaltzman WED Panellist: Lolly Adefope WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Producer: Joe Nunnery WED Producer: Rachel Wheeley WED WED 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b04grcnd (Listen) WED Series 4, Trolleyology WED WED Pints and Philosophical Problems with Matthew Sweet. This WED week, trolleyology: how should you decide between two WED morally troubling courses of action? This is a question WED which affects both soldiers in the heat of action and WED decision-makers in the NHS. Matthew is joined in the snug by WED philosopher David Edmonds. WED WED Producer: Luke Mulhall. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05qvz4l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05pr0gq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvz4n (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvz4q (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvz4s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05qvz4v (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05r3zcv (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day the Rev'd Dr THU Martyn Atkins. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05r3zcx (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrckq (Listen) THU Ruddy Duck THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Kate Humble presents the ruddy duck. Ruddy ducks are natives THU of North America. In the late 1950s and early 1960s several THU ruddy ducks escaped from the Wildfowl Trust's collection at THU Slimbridge and within 30 years they had become established THU breeding birds in the UK. Some even migrated to Spain where THU they mated with a very rare threatened relative, the THU white-headed duck. Many ornithologists believed that the THU resulting hybrids threatened to undermine years of THU conservation work in Spain, so after taking scientific THU advice, the UK government set out to eradicate the ruddy THU duck. This action has reduced our population to a handful so THU your best chance of hearing the courtship display is by THU visiting a wildfowl collection. THU THU Ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). THU THU Recording provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell THU Lab of Ornithology THU THU This programme contains a recording of a ruddy duck kindly THU provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of THU Ornithology. THU THU THU THU Source credit: ML 45345 / The Macaulay Library at the THU Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recorded by Randolph S Little 6 THU Jun 1989 THU THU THU THU 06:00 Today b05r3zjh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05r3zjk (Listen) THU Fanny Burney THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the THU 18th-century novelist, playwright and diarist Fanny Burney, THU also known as Frances D'Arblay and Frances Burney. Her first THU novel, Evelina, was published anonymously and caused a THU sensation, attracting the admiration of many eminent THU contemporaries. In an era when very few women published THU their work she achieved extraordinary success, and her THU admirers included Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke; later THU Virginia Woolf called her 'the mother of English fiction'. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05pr0wl (Listen) THU Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot, Episode 4 THU THU Mark Vanhoenacker always had a passion for flying, but THU didn't ever really consider it as a job, until his research THU as a young academic began to frustrate him and the tug of THU the skies once more made its presence felt. THU THU Today he is a long distance pilot for one of the world's THU major airlines. THU THU Episode 4: THU Ships in the night. THU THU Read by William Hope THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: William Hope THU Author: Mark Vanhoenacker THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05r3zjp (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05r401c (Listen) THU The Blast of War, Agincourt THU THU A new drama serial by Michael Symmons Roberts. A British THU soldier fighting in Afghanistan is sent on a time-travelling THU journey of atonement after a comrade is killed in one of the THU last military actions of 2015. Unwittingly he is transported THU back to Agincourt in 1415 and must relive the horror of war. THU With Sam Troughton as Sam, Hattie Morahan as Bea, Bryan Dick THU as Eddie and Jordan Bernarde as Evan. Music by Jon Nicholls. THU Director: Tim Dee. THU THU Credits THU Sam: Sam Troughton THU Bea: Hattie Morahan THU Eddie: Bryan Dick THU Evan: Jordan Bernarde THU Director: Tim Dee THU Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05r401f (Listen) THU 'Police State' Portugal THU THU Reports from around the world. THU THU 11:30 Shipping Songs b05r401h (Listen) THU The Shipping Forecast has long provided essential, THU potentially life-saving, information for those at sea around THU the British Isles. But the forecast also has a history of THU sparking the imagination and creativity of those firmly on THU land - music, poetry and artworks of all kinds have been THU inspired by it. THU THU Award-winning folk artist Lisa Knapp, who has herself THU written a song inspired by the daily forecast, takes a THU musical and poetic voyage through the watery regions of the THU Shipping Forecast and examines the appeal it holds for THU land-bound musicians, poets and writers. THU THU From the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy to the THU music of Radiohead, Blur and Jethro Tull, the forecast has THU ingrained itself into Britain's creative arts. Many have THU employed the Shipping Forecast's natural rhythm and THU multitude of connotations to conjure up feelings of THU familiarity and strangeness, of community and alienation, of THU safety and danger. THU THU Lisa reflects on her own fondness for a forecast for which, THU in reality, she has no need, but which has ignited her THU imagination and taken her off to distant mythical lands. She THU hears from fellow musicians and writers who have been THU influenced by the Shipping Forecast and finds out how this THU regular informational broadcast captured their imaginations. THU THU Poet Sean Street, songwriter Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and THU composer Cecilia McDowall are among those to share their THU thoughts on the forecast's appeal. THU THU Producer: Lorna Skingley THU A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05qvz4x (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Election Snapshots b05rn6xw (Listen) THU Charles Kennedy, 2001 THU THU Election Snapshots reveals the stories behind five iconic THU photographs from British General Elections since 1945. THU Political insiders and distinguished photographers discuss THU how campaigning has changed, from Winston Churchill through THU Thatcher, to Blair and Brown. THU Pushing the boundaries of campaigning, Charles Kennedy THU visited a hospital operating theatre during a real operation THU in Southampton during the 2001 campaign. Heart surgeon Iain THU Simpson and photographer Andy Scaysbrook who was on THU Kennedy's campaign bus that day, recall the lengths the Lib THU Dem leader was prepared to go to to canvass for votes. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b05r407k (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05qvz4z (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05r407m (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05r3z4c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03ggrqg (Listen) THU Moving Music THU THU by Sarah Wooley. THU THU Philip Glass and Steve Reich are best known as pioneers of THU minimalist music. What is less well known is that they ran a THU removal firm together to make ends meet while they were THU making their way as young composers in the 1960s. THU THU Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Steve: Bryan Dick THU Philip: Justin Salinger THU Art Murphy: Iain Batchelor THU Jon Gibson: David Seddon THU Mrs Rosa: Nancy Crane THU Writer: Sarah Wooley THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane THU Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05r4088 (Listen) THU The Solway Shore THU THU Caz Graham visits the shores of Solway Firth to discover the THU folk and wildlife that live around the stunning coastline. THU THU Caz pulls on her wellies and heads to the shoreline at low THU tide with the help of Ann Lingard. THU THU Ann is a 'low-tide' guide and leads Caz on a tromp through a THU rarely explored landscape: one of rock pools and rare reefs. THU Ann shows Caz the home of the honeycomb worm, Sabellaria. THU The creature creates a reef close to the low water mark and THU it is exposed at low tide. They also visit a submerged THU forest that the sea reveals when the tide rolls back. THU THU Presenter: Caz Graham THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05qydx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05qynrn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05r40dj (Listen) THU Roy Andersson; Joss Whedon; Foley THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Joss Whedon discusses Avengers: Age Of Ulron. THU THU Swedish auteur Roy Andersson on A Pigeon Sat On A Branch THU Reflecting On Existence. THU THU As part of the BBC's Get Creative campaign, Francine tries THU her hand at making sound effects with household objects, THU ably assisted by foley artist Barnaby Smyth. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Joss Whedon THU Interviewed Guest: Roy Andersson THU Interviewed Guest: Barnaby Smyth THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05r40dl (Listen) THU Tracey Logan investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05r40dn (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvz51 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03kpnjz (Listen) THU Series 9, Intellectual Fireworks THU THU Ed appears to have stepped on the gravy train at last as he THU takes up a professorship at Much Wenlock Court - a THU prestigious writing retreat. He hopes this will lead him to, THU at the very least, a contentious Saturday Essay on the Today THU Programme. However, this retreat has been set up by one Jaz THU Milvain so could Ed's change in fortune be too good to be THU true? THU THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Ned: Jonathan Coy THU Newsreader: Corrie Corfield THU Jaz: Philip Jackson THU Rosemary: Felicity Montagu THU Maureen: Carolyn Pickles THU Suki: Nicola Sanderson THU Waitress: Nicola Sanderson THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Lisa: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05r40l5 (Listen) THU Charlie surprises Adam, and Lilian is feeling low. THU THU 19:16 Front Row b05r40r3 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05r401c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05r40r5 (Listen) THU The Satanic Cult That Wasn't THU THU How Satanic abuse accusations in a North London suburb went THU global, but turned out to be untrue. Melanie Abbott THU investigates. THU THU Producer: Joe Kent THU Researcher: Kirsteen Knight. THU THU 20:30 In Business b05r40r7 (Listen) THU Circular Economy THU THU As Dame Ellen MacArthur circumnavigated the globe she got THU first-hand knowledge of the finite nature of the world's THU resources. When she retired from sailing she created a THU foundation to promote the concept of a 'Circular Economy' - THU where resources are re-used and waste reduced to zero. Many THU companies around the world - including some of the biggest, THU like Unilever - are responding to her ideas. THU THU Peter Day talks to the record-breaking sailor, to Unilever, THU and to the creators of an innovative urban farm in New THU Jersey about why these concepts are so important and how THU businesses can take them on board. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05r40dl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05r3zjk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05r40r9 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05r40rc (Listen) THU Gorsky, Episode 9 THU THU Chelski : a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story THU about beauty, money and books THU THU With the discovery of Janice Allaoui's body in his Covent THU Garden flat, Tom Summerscale is arrested. Nick remains THU convinced of his innocence, as does Natalia who feels she THU needs to stand by her husband. THU THU Gorsky has moved into his new house but is left waiting and THU wondering if Natalia and his daughter will ever join him THU there. THU THU Read by Philip Arditti THU THU Written by Vesna Goldsworthy THU Abridged by Isobel Creed THU THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Philip Arditti THU Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy THU Abridger: Isobel Creed THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 23:00 Chat Show Roulette b05r40rf (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. THU His guests are Pippa Evans, Hugh Dennis, Robert Popper and THU Matt Lucas - with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood. THU Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards. THU THU Produced by Ashley Blaker THU A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Justin Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Pippa Evans THU Interviewed Guest: Hugh Dennis THU Interviewed Guest: Robert Popper THU Interviewed Guest: Matt Lucas THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b04hvrr5 (Listen) THU Series 4, Induction THU THU Pints and Philosophical Problems with Matthew Sweet. This THU week, the problem of induction: are we justified in THU predicting the future on the basis of what's happened in the THU past? How do we know that the sun will rise tomorrow? In the THU snug with Matthew is philosopher Helen Beebee, discussing a THU conundrum which faces all of us in our daily life - and THU which raises profound questions about the nature of science. THU THU Producer: Luke Mulhall. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05qvz65 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05pr0wl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvz67 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvz69 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvz6c (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05qvz6f (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05r6rdj (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day the Rev'd Dr FRI Martyn Atkins. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05r6rdl (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcm9 (Listen) FRI Goosander FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Kate Humble presents the goosander. Goosanders are handsome FRI ducks and belong to a group known as 'sawbills' because FRI their long slender bills are lined with backward pointing FRI 'teeth', for gripping slippery fish. Underwater they're as FRI agile as otters, chasing fish in raging currents or nosing FRI for them under riverbanks. FRI FRI Goosander (Mergus merganser) FRI Webpage courtesy of Steve Round (rspb-images.com). FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05r6swy (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b05qygcg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05pr1jd (Listen) FRI Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mark Vanhoenacker always had a passion for flying, but FRI didn't ever really consider it as a job, until his research FRI as a young academic began to frustrate him and the tug of FRI the skies once more made its presence felt. FRI FRI Today he is a long distance pilot for one of the world's FRI major airlines. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Landing, flying blind and coming home. FRI FRI Read by William Hope FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: William Hope FRI Author: Mark Vanhoenacker FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05r6sx2 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05r6sx4 (Listen) FRI The Blast of War, Home FRI FRI A new drama serial by Michael Symmons Roberts. A British FRI soldier fighting in Afghanistan is sent on a journey of FRI atonement after a comrade is killed in one of the last FRI military actions of 2015. Unwittingly he has been FRI transported back to Gallipoli in 1915, then Waterloo in FRI 1815, and then six hundred years to Agincourt in 1415. Each FRI time he must fight and relive the horror of war. With Sam FRI Troughton as Sam, Hattie Morahan as Bea, Bryan Dick as Eddie FRI and Jordan Bernarde as Evan. Music by Jon Nicholls. FRI Director: Tim Dee. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sam: Sam Troughton FRI Bea: Hattie Morahan FRI Eddie: Bryan Dick FRI Evan: Jordan Bernarde FRI Director: Tim Dee FRI Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts FRI FRI 11:00 Macau: Monte Carlo of the Orient b05r6wyc (Listen) FRI Having enjoyed a decade of unparalleled growth to leapfrog FRI Las Vegas and become the world's gambling centre, Macau now FRI faces both an economic downturn and a crackdown from FRI mainland China, where gambling is banned. FRI FRI So what does the future hold for the next generation of FRI aircraft hangar-size casinos opening this year? As other FRI territories attempt to tap into the lucrative market of FRI outbound Chinese tourists, Claire Bolderson explores what FRI Macau must do to keep both its VIP and mass-market visitors FRI satisfied. FRI FRI Producer: Nick Minter FRI An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b037v4fk (Listen) FRI Concerning Mr Zola FRI FRI Part 6 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. FRI FRI From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave FRI amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve FRI solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most FRI popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures FRI survive in the archives. FRI FRI In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to FRI life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and FRI Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and FRI recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the FRI production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to FRI sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have FRI done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so FRI popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, FRI Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, FRI and A Case for Paul Temple. FRI FRI Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory FRI Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the FRI mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. FRI FRI Episode 6: Concerning Mr Zola. FRI A lingering scent of perfume may give a vital clue to the FRI latest murder. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Madison: Robin Laing FRI Zola: Greg Powrie FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05qvz6j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Election Snapshots b05rnf6v (Listen) FRI 2010 Gordon Brown FRI FRI Election Snapshots reveals the stories behind five iconic FRI photographs from British General Elections since 1945. FRI Political insiders and distinguished photographers discuss FRI how campaigning has changed, from Winston Churchill through FRI Thatcher, to Blair and Brown. FRI FRI When Gordon Brown met Gillian Duffy on the street in FRI Rochdale in the last days of the 2010 election, few realised FRI the pictures of that meeting would be significant and FRI defining images for the whole campaign. FRI FRI Close Brown aide David Muir and photographer Jeff Mitchell FRI recall the real story behind an event which many think cost FRI Labour election victory in 2010. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b05r6wyf (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05qvz6l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05r6wyh (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha FRI Kearney. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05r40l5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05r6zxz (Listen) FRI Mrs Robinson, I Presume FRI FRI A new play by Tracy-Ann Oberman, telling the story of the FRI film that changed Hollywood - The Graduate. Starring John FRI Simm as director Mike Nichols. FRI FRI In 1963, fledgling producer Lawrence Turman read a novel by FRI Charles Webb called The Graduate. He knew he had to make it FRI into a movie, so he optioned it with his own money. He then FRI persuaded Mike Nichols, who had only directed theatre at FRI this point, to direct the film. FRI FRI Everyone in Hollywood thought they were crazy when they cast FRI the unknown Dustin Hoffman to play Benjamin Braddock, who FRI was described in the book as tall, blond and athletic. But FRI they went their own way and made a classic movie that FRI defined a generation. How they did it and how Gene Hackman, FRI Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks got involved along the way is FRI the subject of Tracy-Ann Oberman's drama. FRI Tracy-Ann's previous work for Radio 4 includes the Afternoon FRI Dramas Bette And Joan And Baby Jane and Rock And Doris And FRI Elizabeth. FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mike Nichols: John Simm FRI Lawrence Turman: Paul Kaye FRI Dustin Hoffman: Kevin Bishop FRI Anne Bancroft: Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Gene Hackman: Terry Mynott FRI Mel Brooks: Steve Furst FRI Ava Gardner: Lorelei King FRI Writer: Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05r6zy1 (Listen) FRI Correspondence Edition FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a correspondence edition of the FRI programme. The panel answer questions sent in by post, FRI online and through social media. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Blood, Sweat and Tears b05r6zy3 (Listen) FRI The Blood-Spotted Tissue FRI FRI Scottish author Denise Mina writes the first episode in a FRI new series of specially commissioned short stories by three FRI of Britain's top crime writers. "A Blood Spotted Tissue" is FRI a murder-mystery about a student found to have 'flesh in her FRI drains'. FRI FRI These stories were recorded in front of an audience in the FRI MCT theatre, Alleyn's School, Dulwich and were and FRI introduced by Mark Billingham. FRI FRI Read by Sharon Small FRI FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Denise Mina FRI Reader: Sharon Small FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05r6zy5 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b05r6zy7 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05r71x7 (Listen) FRI Jackie and Rachel - Everybody Else Has Grandchildren FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces the mother of two gay children, FRI bemoaning her lack of prospective grandchildren, yet FRI recognising, with her daughter, that there can be FRI compensations. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05r71x9 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvz6n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b05r71xc (Listen) FRI Series 14, Episode 3 FRI FRI The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect FRI the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes FRI for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's FRI Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the FRI flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the FRI country. FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis FRI MacLeod and Debra Stephenson. FRI FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Producer: Bill Dare FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05r71xf (Listen) FRI There is news for Helen and Rob, and Pip drops a bombshell. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Dan Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI FRI 19:16 Front Row b05r71xh (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05r6sx4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05r71xk (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05r71xm (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01n5z37 (Listen) FRI The Air Gap FRI FRI By Steve Waters. FRI FRI "Hypothetical question: if you had free rein over classified FRI networks for long periods of time, say 8-9 months, and you FRI saw incredible things, awful things, things that belonged in FRI the public domain, not on some server stored in a dark room FRI in Washington DC, what would you do?" - Bradley Manning, FRI from an unverified chat log with a hacker. FRI FRI "Air gap" is the term for the separation between the FRI civilian internet and the military and diplomatic computer FRI network. In April 2010 this air gap was breached, leading to FRI the biggest information leak in history. FRI FRI One month later Bradley Manning, a soldier in the US Army, FRI was arrested and accused of releasing classified information FRI to WikiLeaks. He was taken to the military prison at FRI Quantico, Virginia, held in solitary confinement for ten FRI months and, his lawyers argue, subjected to cruel and FRI unusual treatment. After two-and-a-half years, a trial date FRI has now been set for February 2013. FRI FRI This factually-based drama combines dramatised accounts of FRI Bradley Manning's experiences with imagined conversations FRI and characters. It takes place in Quantico and the operating FRI base near Baghdad where Manning was stationed leading up to FRI his arrest. It's here he sees the war on terror documented FRI in action reports and in video material, including the now FRI infamous "collateral murder" video. FRI FRI Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris FRI A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bradley Manning: Greg Wohead FRI Corporal: Michael Walters FRI Brig Guard: Corey Turner FRI Brig Guard: Chris McKinney FRI Intelligence Operative: Serena Bobowski FRI Psychiatrist: Nancy Crane FRI Lawyer: Dominic Hawksley FRI Commanding Watch Officer: Nathan Osgood FRI Director: Boz Temple-Morris FRI Writer: Steve Waters FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05qvz6r (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05r71xr (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05r71xt (Listen) FRI Gorsky, Episode 10 FRI FRI Part homage to The Great Gatsby, Vesna Goldsworthy's novel FRI is a poignant tribute to the hollowness that lies at the FRI heart of great wealth and the sadness that can overwhelm FRI great love. FRI FRI Our narrator, Nick, looks back on the events of that summer FRI in London and recalls the aftermath of Gorsky's murder, and FRI how the person who killed him was eventually caught. FRI FRI Read by Philip Arditti FRI FRI Written by Vesna Goldsworthy FRI Abridged by Isobel Creed FRI FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Philip Arditti FRI Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy FRI Abridger: Isobel Creed FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b05r3w3s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 The Philosopher's Arms b04jjz47 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Sex Equality FRI FRI Pints and philosophical problems with Matthew Sweet. Each FRI week the programme examines a knotty philosophical issue: FRI this week, sex equality and pay. Should we expect women to FRI make up 50% of senior positions and, if they do not, is that FRI evidence of discrimination? In the pub for this episode is FRI the philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards. FRI FRI Producer: David Edmonds. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05r71xw (Listen) FRI Dominic and Jamie - The Leaving of Liverpool FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between brothers who are FRI now living in Northern Ireland, yet cannot quite leave the FRI Mersey behind, in the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
18 April, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 18/04/2015 - 24/04/2015
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